Fine-tuning business reforms

THE Prime Minister’s Office will drive implementation of reforms to improve the business environment as it will involve issues that cut across almost all the ministries and the local government authorities, it has been explained.

A Business Environment Analyst of the Tanzania National Business Council, Kabenga Kaisi said at a meeting in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the Prime Minister’s Office would coordinate the reform agenda as its implementation would involve almost all ministries and local government authorities.

“The Prime Minister’s Office has to take leadership in the implementation because many issues in the reforms agenda involve almost all ministries... They are cross-cutting issues which need Prime Minister’s Office to drive them,” he said at a breakfast meeting to discuss implementation of a government’s blueprint for regulatory reforms to improve the business environment.

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment published the blueprint for regulatory reforms in May this year provides government’s main framework for enabling a holistic review of the business enabling environment (BEE) in order to improve the business climate in Tanzania.

The government has already pledged to take on board recommendations from the blueprint of the regulatory reforms to improve business environment from the 2018/19 financial year.

Moving budget proposals for the 2018/19 year in Parliament last month the Minister for Finance and Planning, Dr Phillip Mpango said the recommendations are aimed at harmonising and simplifying procedures for payment of taxes, fees and levies.

However, some participants at the meeting said they were afraid implementation reforms . “Who is in charge of the process?” This needs to be cleared as it shows the process may be bogged down,” he said.

The Executive Secretary for Tourism Confederation of Tanzania (TCT), Richard Rugimbana also shared the concerns saying lack of clarity on who would lead the process in the government would delay the implementation of the reforms agenda.

A TPSF consultant, Dr Donath Olomi of the Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development said it would have been difficult for the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment to drive the process because of the wide range of issues in the reform agenda.

“The document touches almost all the ministries and the ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment will find it difficult to be the champion,” he said as he wound up the discussion on the matter.

Other pertinent issues raised in the meeting included the need for an action plan for the implementation of business reforms that will include priorities in the implementation process and a timeframe for completion of various items in the agenda.

“It looks as if we will be pursuing lots of things concurrently...we need to focus on what we want to pursue. We must identify the target and go for it,” he said.

The Executive Secretary for Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) Geoffrey Simbeye said the private sector needs to demand to the government to come up with an action plan that will entails the priorities and timeframe of the implementation.

“It is now or never to effect big changes in the business climate, he said adding it was the time the private sector engaged the government to come up with an action plan of the implementation of the reforms agenda.

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