THE Ministry of Finance and Planning has advised the Zanzibar Revolutionary Government to incorporate the Import Export Commodity Database (IECDB) to avoid double taxation for goods imported in the country through Zanzibar.
Deputy Finance Minister Ashatu Kijaji
told the National Assembly here that the Tanzania Revenue Authority
(TRA) had been re-charging tax for goods originating from Zanzibar
because the Island government has not incorporated the IECDB system in
revenue collection.
She was responding to a question by
Jamal Ali (Magomeni-CCM), who wanted to know the procedures used to
evaluate tax by the revenue bodies when receiving different goods from
Zanzibar.
The deputy minister pointed out that the
IECDB system was the most appropriate because it keeps price data for
different goods imported in the country and used by TRA as sample and
reference while evaluating proper tax liability.
She said that wherever relevant
documents are presented at the Central Processing Office on imported
goods, including those through Zanzibar, the value for the concerned
good is fed in the IECDB system to get the actual tax a customer is
required to pay.
According to the deputy minister, in
case the tax paid is less, the system would reveal the deficit in the
database and evaluate the balance to be paid.
The deputy minister, however, pointed
out that goods produced in Zanzibar and shipped to Tanzania Mainland are
not subjected to ta
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