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Tax instruments for Tanzania's industrialization growth

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dc.creator Maskaeva, A.
dc.creator Mmasa, J.
dc.creator Lema, N.
dc.creator Mgeni, M.
dc.date 2020-11-24T14:19:24Z
dc.date 2020-11-24T14:19:24Z
dc.date 2019
dc.date.accessioned 2021-03-27T10:26:21Z
dc.date.available 2021-03-27T10:26:21Z
dc.identifier Maskaeva, A., Mmasa, J., Lema, N. & Mgeni, M. (2019). Tax instruments for Tanzania's industrialization growth. In the European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences (pp. 892-900) Future Academy, Russia.
dc.identifier DOI:10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.05.109
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2593
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2593
dc.description Full text article. Also available at https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.12.05.109
dc.description Tanzanian government aims to reshape the economy into a semi-industrialized nation by 2025. As a policy measure to support this reform, the government exempted producer capital commodities from value-added tax in 2017/2018 fiscal year. This aims to foster utilization of these commodities in the manufacturing sector in order to generate economic growth, employment, and social well-being of the nation. This research examines the impact of macroeconomic fiscal instruments on the Tanzanian economy, by applying a static “Partnership for Economic Policy1-1”standard Computable General Equilibrium model. We simulate a reduction of the value-added tax rate on producer capital commodities (electricity, machinery, electrical equipment, vehicles, and other equipment) under two different government closure rules. In the first simulation, government expenditures are fixed while government savings are flexible and adjust to changes in government revenue. Results show a decline in investment expenditure following a decrease in government savings and thus a negative impact on macroeconomic indicators. In the second simulation, government savings are fixed to maintain the budget deficit. The results show a decline in real Gross Domestic Product partly because of a decrease in output in governmental, some agricultural and service sectors. Conversely, output increases for all manufacturing sectors, resulting in lower the average unemployment rate.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Future Academy
dc.subject Capital commodities
dc.subject Value added tax
dc.subject Macroeconomic
dc.subject Macroeconomic indicators
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Computable General Equilibrium
dc.subject CGE
dc.subject Industrialization
dc.subject Social accounting matrix
dc.subject Tax
dc.subject Tanzania`s industrialization
dc.subject Sustainable development
dc.subject Project management
dc.subject Tax instruments
dc.title Tax instruments for Tanzania's industrialization growth
dc.title In the European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences
dc.type Conference Proceedings


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