Tanzania: Employers Against Skills Uplifting Tax

Tanzanian employers are up in arms over what they see as the government's attempt to neglect the human resource development role and pass it to the private sector, a move they argue would lower the country's business competitiveness in the region.

The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) chairman, Mr Cornelius Kariwa, said the six per cent Skill and Development (SDL) tax on employers should be reviewed because it was not yielding the desired results for quantity and quality skills development.

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