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Sunday 7 August 2016

TANZANIA REVENUE AUTHORITY TO UPDATE TAXPAYERS' DATA

Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) will carry out a nationwide drive to update tax-payers details in order to establish current information contained in the Tax-payer’s Identification Number (TIN), including contacts and locations.

The TIN is a unique identification number used for tax purposes. In Tanzania, the TINs which are issued by the TRA, are for personal or individual reasons or non-individual reasons.

The non-individual may be either for business, companies, organisations and others. TRA’s Tax-payer Service and Education Officer, George Haule, said in Dar es Salaam on Thursday that the exercise, expected to start this year, is also aimed at increasing the tax - the number of the taxpayers targeting mostly those in the informal sector.

Although he could not give a specific the date for the launch of the exercise, Haule said it would be ‘soon.’ “We have been updating the tax-payers information but the coming one will be a big ever exercise,” he said, noting that when preparation would be finalised, the TRA’s Commissioner General (CG), Alphayo Kidata, would officially launch the campaign.

During the launch, Kidata would give details of the campaign.

He said currently some tax-payers may have identification numbers that were obtained many years ago while they have already changed the information. “For instance, you may find that one has a TIN of the 1990s.

There must be changes in contacts or location,” he said. He said the forthcoming campaign would also see the launch of a new look of TIN certificates. The exercise would be carried out in centres to be set up in various parts of the country.

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