Importers reportedly fearing President John Magufuli’s tax crackdown.

Tanzania is to auction thousands of tonnes of brown sugar abandoned at the Dar es Salaam port by importers reportedly fearing President John Magufuli’s tax crackdown.

The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has put the consignment in 44 containers for auction in the first week of October should its owners fail to show up and claim the cargo in 30 days.

A notice issued through the media on Wednesday listed the brown sugar containers among several other items that have overstayed at the port without being claimed.  The East African reports.
The sugar would be sold as deemed fit by the government if its owner would not show up and clear it from the port.
Sources told The Citizen that the sugar had been lying at the port for several months because of tax dispute. President Magufuli put a ban on importation of sugar and crackdown on tax fraud.
Local sugar manufacturers had been complaining that uncontrolled sugar imports and tax evasion have affected their production and expansions plans.

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