Source: IppMedia.comGovernment declares austerity fiscal measures next budget
03 May 2008
By Perege Gumbo
The Minister for Finance and Economy Mustafa Mkulo has said effective from next year; the government will finance recurrent expenditure wholly from its own revenue resources.
He said it was untenable that since this country attained independence almost 45 years ago, we still continue to depend on foreign donations to finance even annual recurrent budgets.
About 40 percent of the government`s budget is financed by both multilateral and bilateral donors through budget support mechanism.
Mkullo was responding to parliamentarians` questions at a meeting recently organised by the National Audit Office for strengthening accountability committees of the Parliament.
In his view, the forthcoming 2008/09 budget should at least guarantee that we can pay salaries to public servants and leave development budget to be catered for by aid from donor community.
That goal could be achieved through maximising tax collection, especially effective taxation of natural resources such as forest products and tourism.
He promised that the two tax bases would be carefully be subjected to scrutiny with view to tapping more revenues from some of its untaxed areas.
``To remove donor dependence completely may become impossible because even some developed countries are having some elements of dependence in their budgets although to insignificant levels``, he stressed.
During the meeting, MPs parliamentarians asked questions ranging from inflationary performance to misuse of public funds by various government agencies and lack of government action on perpetrators.
For instance, they raised concerns about massive misuse of road funds from the national, regional to the district levels, mostly seen through construction of substandard roads.
The government admitted existence of huge discrepancies, and promised that since the current Public Procurement Act was being overhauled as proposed by Dr. Mwakyembes probe report, the operations and use of the road fund would soon be rectified.
He also said the government in collaboration with donor community had formed a joint action plan which would be meeting monthly to among other things evaluate developments and actions taken over strengthening of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) and its supervisory departments.
This development comes in response to External Arrears Payment Account (EPA) scandal which siphoned 155bn/- from BoT coffers.
* SOURCE: Guardian
Nyerererist, yote uliyosema ni sawa, ila hili nalo linatia matumaini...indirectly labda kwa kutoa ahadi kama hiyo kutawafanya wafatilie kwa undani ufujaji mali ulioenea sehemu mbalimbali... hivyo the end result would still be positive.huyo nae badala ya kutueleza lile swala letu limefikia wapi!! anaanza style zilezile za kina mramba na Yonna,,atueleze kuhusu uvujaji wa fedha pale BOT ukiachia mbali EPA
Nyerererist, yote uliyosema ni sawa, ila hili nalo linatia matumaini...indirectly labda kwa kutoa ahadi kama hiyo kutawafanya wafatilie kwa undani ufujaji mali ulioenea sehemu mbalimbali... hivyo the end result would still be positive.
SteveD
....Bongolander, lakini unaona hapo juu jinsi alivyo jihami na hayo hayo aliyosema?......au nimemwelewa vibaya..."The forthcoming 2008/09 budget should at least guarantee that we can pay salaries to public servants and leave development budget to be catered for by aid from donor community".
Hii inasikitisha sana, na ukiwambia kuwa CCM na Serikali wameshindwa kuleta maendelea wanaweza kukataa. Kama mawaziri wanaweza kuwa na vijisenti vingi nje ya nchi, bila shaka kama vingetumika hapa nyumbani basi tungekuwa mbali sana na tusingekuwa hapa tulipo!
Ni habari nzuri but its strange...Ghafla hayo yanawezekana?
Swali ni .... nini hasa kimepelekea hayo kuwezekana?
Kithuku, very good insight!!Hiki bado ni kichekesho, hakuna kujitegemea kokote alikotaja hapo zaidi ya reallocation! Yaani anachosema ni kuwa badala ya donors kufadhili 40% matumizi ya kawaida ya serikali na asilimia fulani ya matumizi ya maendeleo, sasa serikali inagawana majukumu na wafadhili ambapo sasa serikali itagharamia yenyewe bajeti yote ya matumizi ya kawaida na kuwaachia wafadhali bajeti ya maendeleo! Yaleyale tu, changa la macho. Zile tulizokuwa tunatumia kwenye maendeleo zote tumerudisha kwenye matumizi ya kawaida na kuwaachia wafadhili bajeti ya maendeleo. Usanii wa kipuuzi tu, alianza kutudanganya kuwa shilingi inaongezeka thamani akidhani sisi ni watoto wadogo kuwa hatujui hizo hesabu za kuilinganisha shilingi inayoporomoka na dola ya Marekani inayoporomoka pia! Sasa anatuletea usanii wa kuhamisha hela kutoka mfuko mmoja kwenda mwingine na kutudanganya zimeongezeka! Huyu ni wa kuzomea!
....Bongolander, lakini unaona hapo juu jinsi alivyo jihami na hayo hayo aliyosema?......au nimemwelewa vibaya...
SteveD, kweli kuna ka-ujanja kwenye hiyo sentense yake, lakini mimi kwa maoni yangu ilitakiwa kuwa vice versa, miradi ya maendeleo tui-finance wenyewe, kwa sababu hiyo ndio msingi wa maendeleo.
Hata hivyo mpaka sasa bado naona uchumi wetu na nchi yetu ni highly mismanaged, viongozi wangekuwa na nia ya kweli withi two three years tungeweza kufikia level ya kujitegemea. Ufisadi na ubinafsi unatula sana, hiyo ndio cancer iliyopo kwenye serikali na chama kinachotutawala.
Shukrani Kithuku, hili changa KUBWA kuliko hata yale ya Mkapa na Mramba; jamaa wana AKILI sana!Hiki bado ni kichekesho, hakuna kujitegemea kokote alikotaja hapo zaidi ya reallocation! Yaani anachosema ni kuwa badala ya donors kufadhili 40% matumizi ya kawaida ya serikali na asilimia fulani ya matumizi ya maendeleo, sasa serikali inagawana majukumu na wafadhili ambapo sasa serikali itagharamia yenyewe bajeti yote ya matumizi ya kawaida na kuwaachia wafadhali bajeti ya maendeleo! Yaleyale tu, changa la macho.
Ni habari nzuri but its strange...Ghafla hayo yanawezekana?
Swali ni .... nini hasa kimepelekea hayo kuwezekana?