Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Mr Kuyeko said that handing over the task of collecting the revenues to the TRA would weaken the development of the municipalities in the country. He appealed to President John Magufuli to intervene and ensure revenue collection is handled by the municipalities.
Mr Kuyeko said that there are reports that by July, this year, the government plans to hand over the collection of building revenues to TRA. Currently, the matter is being handled by the municipalities.
He noted that development of the country’s municipalities depends on the various levies including those collected from the municipalities’ buildings, banners and other sources.
“What is being planned by the government over the matter (revenue collection at the municipalities) does not correspond with the Prime Minister’s declaration that requires the municipalities to ensure they collect 80 per cent of the revenues at the municipalities,” he said, noting that the move will not help the municipalities to collect a percentage of the revenues.
Commenting on his municipality (Ilala), Mr Kuyeko said that the management has planned to collect 85b/- in the financial budget contrary to last year’s budget that stood at 52b/-. “In March, this year, we managed to collect 1.8b/- taxes from buildings.
Basing on the new strategies that we had formed, we plan to collect three times the amount of revenues that we had generated,” he noted.
