Business climate on focus

Dar es Salaam. The government is undertaking several programmes to improve Tanzania’s business and investment environment with the goal of bettering the economy, a permanent secretary has said.

Dr Florens Turuka, of the Prime Minister’s Office, said in the city yesterday that several programmes to ensure that envisaged plans happen on the ground were ongoing.

The government, he said, has tasked the National Economic Empowerment Council and the Tanzania National Business Council to spearhead the tasks of improving the business climate and empower citizens economically. The government has prepared a citizen’s empowerment write-up - set to be launched this December – with a view to clearly elaborate sectors that may bring quick economic gains should they be given the required boost.

Without specifying the timeframe, Dr Turuka explained that through the government’s Property and Business Formalisation Programme, Tanzanians will be able to own surveyed land throughout the country.

He named some of the focus areas when dealing with improving business environment as laws, policies and taxes.