Tax – GEPC

Tanzania’s Mining Investment Climate: Reforms that government should take to attract and retain new mining investors

November 20, 2024

Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Tax, Trade and investment

Tanzania is endowed with a variety of mineral resources and has been successful in attracting large mining investments. However, over the past few years, this investment curve...

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Debt Budgets: A post budget political economy analysis of EAC Countries 2024/25 budget priorities, viabilities, risks and how governments can restore public confidence

July 25, 2024

Conflicts, Economic Analysis, Policy, Tax

Economists have always asserted that you know a country’s priorities from its budget while political scientists further suggest that a state and government’s health is...

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Political Risk and Investment in EA: An Expose of violent tax protests and political risk on Trade and Investment in East Africa

June 27, 2024

Economic Analysis, Governance, Peace, Security, Tax, Trade and investment, Uncategorized

In our previous brief on Tax and Fiscal governance in East Africa, we observed that with dwindling foreign aid, it appears the governments in East Africa have resorted to...

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Tax and Fiscal Governance: Is VAT milking the broken tax cow dry? An analysis of tax trends and impacts on EAC small traders and citizens, with a case of the recent traders’ boycotts in Uganda

May 15, 2024

Economic Analysis, Tax, Trade and investment

With dwindling foreign aid, it appears the governments in East Africa have resorted to squeezing everywhere to raise some dime. Taxation may be good however, when the extremes are...

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How EAC can benefit from its Critical or Transitional Minerals

March 11, 2024

Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

The EAC has vast deposits of minerals critical to driving technology to support the green industrial revolution and yet the region lacks a proper framework to govern and maximize...

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Critical Minerals: EAC destined large critical minerals block, yet benefits remain elusive

March 6, 2024

Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

With the DRC and Somalia on board and new coltan discoveries made in Kenya, the East Africa Community (EAC) is now destined to become one of the largest critical minerals deposits...

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Evaluating East Africa’s economic trends and outlook 2024: What should EAC governments do to reduce further hardships?

November 22, 2023

Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Governance, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

The East Africa Community is so far the largest economic block, with 7 members states with a vast territory straddling from the Indian ocean coast to the Atlantic Coast, with a...

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TAXING E-COMMERCE IN A RAPID EXPANDING DIGITAL ECONOMY: Managing the delicate balance between DRM, and Employment in East Africa-How do we get right?

July 12, 2023

Economic Analysis, Tax, Trade and investment

Taxation of e-commerce is an emerging area of challenge in tax policy and administration and yet the rapidly expanding digital economy has recorded a proliferation of...

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Financing of the Green Economy and prospects for Africa-Can Green Banks offer a viable alternative?

May 29, 2023

CSO, Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

Achieving Green Economies and a just energy transition for Africa cannot be achieved without financing. It is said there is sufficient liquidity and capital to finance climate...

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AfCFTA: Dissecting the world’s largest Free Trade Area: Challenges and Opportunities for East Africa. Is AfCFTA a window of opportunity or a fallacy?

April 21, 2023

Diplomacy, Economic, Economic Analysis, Policy, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

The AfCFTA entered into force on May 30, 2019. Despite the speed at which this new Africa continental trading block is unloading, there is very limited knowledge amongst ordinary...

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