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AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> A HOUSE-TO-HOUSE drive of listing all buildings for property tax collection begins on Monday.<\/p>\n

Minister\u00a0of State in the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government) Mr Selemani Jafo announced the two-week operation in Morogoro on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe campaign will run from Monday up to February 28. I have directed all regional and district authorities as well as local leaders to go house-to-house countrywide to register all buildings for owners to pay taxes as the country needs revenues for development activities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This operation will exclude buildings belonging to religious groups.<\/p>\n

Mr Jafo made the announcement after President John Magufuli had inaugurated the Mahashree Agro Processing Industry at Mikese area along the Morogoro-Dar es Salaam highway.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo let me inform all Tanzanians that on Monday we are going to start listing all buildings. My Permanent Secretary and I will lead this exercise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The move comes after the government last week announced to have shifted\u00a0the responsibility of property tax collection from the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to Local Government Authorities (LGAs).<\/p>\n

Mr Jafo, together with Deputy Minister for Finance and Planning Mwanaidi Ali Khamis told reporters in Dodoma that the move is aimed at increasing government revenue.<\/p>\n

The minister said the government tasked district, municipal and city councils to undertake the exercise to ensure revenue collected goes to development projects for the benefit of the wananchi.<\/p>\n

He directed district, municipal and city council directors to come up with strategies that will ensure best practices in collecting revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere must be a special plan that will enable the government to collect enough revenue from all specified areas,\u201d Mr Jafo said.<\/p>\n

He said District Executive Directors and local government authorities will be the key players since they are close to the people who own properties.<\/p>\n

All councils were tasked to ensure that the\u00a0\u00a0 government gets its rightful share through property taxes and other forms of fees.<\/p>\n

Tanzania has implemented several major reforms of property tax collection system in recent years.<\/p>\n

In 2008, a new system for property tax collection was introduced. The reform entailed shifting the responsibility for administration and collection of property tax from the municipal councils to TRA.<\/p>\n

The government expected this measure to increase the revenue collection. However, in February 2014, it announced the return of property tax collection to the municipalities with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

Moreover, in July 2016, property taxation was again centralised and TRA was assigned full responsibility for administering the tax in the country.<\/p>\n

At least 571.12bn\/- was collected from the local government authorities during 2019\/20 fiscal year.<\/p>\n

The collection was equivalent to 89.7 per cent of the target, which was to collect 765bn\/-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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