Samia endorses revenue drive as she receives 284 proposed tax reforms
President Samia Suluhu Hassan take notes as she receives the Presidential Commission’s report on tax reforms at State House, Dar es Salaam, 18 March 2026.
Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has placed domestic revenue mobilisation at the centre of Tanzania’s economic strategy, endorsing sweeping tax reforms proposed by a presidential commission as the country faces declining foreign aid and tightening global financing conditions.
Speaking after receiving the report of the presidential commission on tax reforms on 18 March 2026, the President said Tanzania must increasingly rely on its own resources to finance development, warning that geopolitical tensions and changing global dynamics are constraining access to external capital.
