Brela upgrading its registration system to attract more investment

By Prosper Makene

Business Registration and Licensing Agency (Brela)

The Business Registration and Licensing Agency (Brela) has said it is constructing a new system that would ensure businessmen who wants to register their firms get the service as quickly as possible.


The move comes after many complaints to Brela on the unnecessary delays experienced that create inconveniences to people who seek to register their companies.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Guardian on Brela deputy registrar Hakiel Mgonja said that the agency is developing a new system that would reduce delays in business registration that undermines competitiveness and attraction of investments.

Mgonja added: “With the new system, we are now able to register a company for only five days and issue a business name in three days. But this happens only when registration forms are duly filled and applicants have met all the requirements”.

The deputy registrar told The Guardian at the ongoing Public Service Week that applicants who want to register their companies may also go to Brela’s website and fill the application forms without necessarily visiting the agency’s office.

Juma Abdullah, a city based businessman, said in an interview: “We want to register our firms with Brela but currently there is inefficiency in fast tracking registration. We fail to register them expressly, we therefore call them to improve their services.”

Another businessman, owning Zoe International PTE, registered in Singapore, Humphrey Muze said: “It took me four hours to register a company in Singapore but ut has taken me long to register one in my motherland. This is very bad and Brela needs to find means to ensure that they bring changes.”

Muze added: “There are many Tanzanian businessmen in the diaspora who also want to invest in their homeland but you cannot invest in a place where company registration itself is a problem.”

In his message on Brela’s website, the agency’s Chief Executive Officer, Frank Kanyus says: “As a government Executive Agency, BRELA is mandated to register business names, companies and intellectual property rights such as patents of inventions, industrial designs, trade and service marks”.

He adds: “We register, issue industrial licenses and administer these various registration laws aimed at creating attractive business environment that is conducive for secured investments and sustainable business development in Tanzania”.

He notes that they are continuously aiming at improving service delivery approach and operational capacities to ensure that customers receive timely and quality services.  

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN