{"id":5347,"date":"2023-04-25T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/?page_id=5347"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:54:50","slug":"excise-duty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/excise-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Excise Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Excise Duty<\/b><\/p>

Excise Duty is a duty charged on specific goods and services manufactured locally on varying rates. It is charged in both specific and ad valorem rates.<\/p>

THE EXCISE DUTY, under Excise Duty Act No 8 Of 2017<\/b><\/p>

NO<\/p><\/td>

ITEMS<\/p><\/td>

DUTIES<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

1<\/p><\/td>

Electronic communication services<\/p><\/td>

17% of dutiable value<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

Pay to view Television services<\/p><\/td>

5% of dutiable value<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

Services provided by Commercial Banks<\/p><\/td>

10% on charges or fees payable<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

Money transfer and payment services provided by telecommunication service provider<\/p><\/td>


10% on charges or fees payable<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>


Excisable Imported Goods<\/p><\/td>


As Specified in the First Schedule of the Act<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

Excisable Imported Services<\/p><\/td>

As Specified in the Second Schedule of the Act<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>


Other imported services<\/p><\/td>


12% of dutiable value<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

NOTE<\/b><\/p>

Dutiable value:<\/b><\/p>

\u27a2<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In relation to use of mobile phone: Amount payable for any electronic communication in relation to the use phone of a mobile phone, fixed or a wireless<\/i><\/p>

\u27a2<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0In relation to Pre-paid electronic communication: \u00a0Face value of the voucher at a sale<\/i><\/p>

\u27a2<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0In relation to Pay to view television service: The amount payable for the service supplied<\/i><\/p>

\u27a2<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0In relation to Financial service: \u00a0amount of charges\/fees<\/i><\/p>

Items charged under specific rates include:<\/b>
Wine, spirits, beer, soft drinks, mineral water,\u00a0\u00a0fruit juices, Recorded DVD,VCD,CD and audio tapes, cigarettes, tobacco,\u00a0\u00a0petroleum products and Natural gas.<\/p>

Items charged under ad-valorem rates include:<\/b>
Money transfer services, electronic communication services, pay to view television services, imported furniture, motor vehicles, plastic bags, specified aircrafts, firearms, specified cases, cosmetics and medicaments.<\/p>

Ad-valorem rates are: 0%,\u00a05%,\u00a010%, 17%, 15%, 20%, 25% ,30% and 50%.<\/p>

Liability to pay excise duty.<\/b><\/p>

Excise duty shall become due and payable in respect of:<\/b><\/p>

(a) any scheduled article imported, by the importer thereof at the time immediately before the article ceases to be subject to customs control or at such other time as may be directed by the Minister in the Gazette,<\/p>

(b) any scheduled article manufactured in the United Republic of Tanzania, by the manufacturer:<\/p>

(i) upon sale of the article by him, or<\/p>

(ii) upon the article ceasing to be subject to customs control, or<\/p>

(iii) upon removal of the article from the premises where it manufactured, whichever first occurs.<\/p>

(c) any scheduled article manufactured or imported by any person free of duty and which is subsequently sold to any other person, by the purchaser at the time of the sale of the article by him;<\/p>

(d) any electronic communication service supplied by electronic communication service provider at the time when such mobile, fixed or wireless phone is in use or when payment is received for the service whichever time shall be the earliest.<\/p>

(e) any pay-to-view satellite television service provider when the service is supplied.<\/p><\/div>

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Excise Duty Excise Duty is a duty charged on specific goods and services manufactured locally on varying rates. It is charged in both specific and ad valorem rates. THE EXCISE DUTY, under Excise Duty Act No 8 Of 2017 NO ITEMS DUTIES 1 Electronic communication services 17% of dutiable value 2 Pay to view Television […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/website.zanrevenue.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}