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Tanzania: Revenue Authority Trains Traders in Business Skills
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
21 May 2008
Posted to the web 21 May 2008
Tanzania's micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) are growing sluggishly partly because education on how to direct and run them effectively and efficiently is scant.
Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) principal officer Hamisi Lupenja told The Citizen in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the sector's slow growth meant low revenue collections by the authority.
"Many MSMEs are in dire need of skills and knowledge and TRA wants to deal with such problems," he said on the fringes of a seminar for 50 MSME operators in Dar es Salaam.
The campaign is part of TRA's second corporate plan which started in 2002 and ends this year.
TRA has been educating MSME operators since last year.
They have been learning subjects such as financial record keeping, differentiating products and capitalising businesses.
Mr Lupenja, who also doubles as head of the seminar programme in the TRA Eastern Zone, says the programme has started bearing fruits.
"Wherever we go, MSME operators tell us that we have brought the seminars at an opportune time," he said.
"Going to various regional offices after the seminars, we can see that a number of MSME operators have registered with TRA and have been given their taxpayers identification numbers."
However, he did not give the number of newly registered taxpayers.
The Eastern Zone of TRA comprises Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Dodoma, Mtwara, Lindi and Coast regions.
TRA officers have been deployed to every region and in every zone to educate MSMEs.
The goal of such seminars is to instil the business knowledge to operators to run their enterprises profitably.
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"When they make profits, their incomes will increase and when incomes increase, they will be able to pay taxes and contribute to the growth of the country's economy," he said.
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