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Tanzania’s Transition Minerals potential opportunities, risks, and dilemma in context of Climate Change and Energy Transition

August 7, 2022

Extractive Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Tax

While critical minerals offer potential opportunities, there are also latent risks for countries such as Tanzania. These risks range from policy gaps, supply chain...

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Tanzania's removal of penalties on transfer pricing: What did government seek to achieve?

June 28, 2021

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

In this year’s (2021/22) budget speech Tanzania’s Minister for Finance, Mr Mwigulu Nchemba, made a surprising announcement that government would/had scrapped the 100%...

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Uganda signals new impetus to Mining with a bill in offing

May 23, 2021

Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Regional Cooperation, Tax

The Uganda government has signaled a new impetus in the mining sector with multiple reforms and political weight over the next five years yielded to transform, its previously...

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Uganda-Tanzania East Africa Oil Pipeline: signed deal yes, but hurdles lie ahead.

April 23, 2021

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

The East African Oil Pipeline project received significant boots in April 2021 with Uganda with a series of key oil infrastructure related agreements signed between the government...

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Tanzania political transition: new era, new opportunity

March 23, 2021

Citizen, Corruption, Diplomacy, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Policy, Tax

In March, East Africa was gripped with shock upon the sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli. Over the past five years, President Magufuli towered like a...

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Were 2020/21 National Budgets Ceremonial? A commentary of how this year’s budgets missed the Bigger Picture

June 15, 2020

Economic, Economic Analysis, Governance, Tax

National budgets are statements of how the government plans to raise and spend public money. They are based on fundamental economic parameters which inform planning. Looking at...

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National Budgeting amidst COVID 19:Why 2020/21 National budgets should be revised and steps government could take

April 30, 2020

Economic, Economic Analysis, Extractive Governance, Governance, Tax

COVID 19 has been known for many reasons but for Tanzania and East African governments in general, the pandemic arrived at a very wrong time. Coming in the middle of national...

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How to curb transfer pricing , tax dodging and illicit financial flows in extractive sector

February 17, 2020

Corruption, Extractive Governance, Governance, Natural Resource, Tax

Tackling tax dodging and illicit capital flight in the extractive sector can be a challenge for tax officials and policymakers in new extractive resource-rich Countries such as...

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Why Rules of Origin (RoO) should not be used exclusively to pursue trade policy objectives

July 30, 2019

Economic Analysis, Regional Cooperation, Tax, Trade and investment

This article shades light on a major instrument in international trade and customs management, which has been used by states to achieve multiple trade objectives. The concept of...

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A British tax haven, Jersey Island, is returning a Nigerian dictator’s $270 million to his country

July 10, 2019

Corruption, Tax

As Africans celebrate the Africa Anti-Corruption day on 12th July 2019, the good news for Nigeria in a longtime is that a famous British Overseas territory , Jersey Island,...

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