United Republic of Tanzania

United Republic of Tanzania

Implements new Investment Act - including new facilitation measures (1/2)

22 Dec 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Parliament of Tanzania passed the new Tanzania Investment Act, 2022 in Kiswahili. This Act includes several changes from the repealed law. These include: - reducing the minimum investment capital for locally owned businesses to benefit from the benefits and protection of the Act from $100,000 to $50,000; - mandating the Tanzania Investment Centre to create an integrated electronic system to be accessed by all essential Government regulatory bodies responsible for issuing various permits, consents, approvals, and licenses relevant to investment; - identifying circumstances that result in the cancellation of the issued certificates of incentives; - providing for an additional function of the Tanzania Investment Centre to deal with investor-related disputes.

  • UNCTAD has been collecting information on changes in national foreign direct investment (FDI) policies on an annual basis since 1992. This collection has provided input to the analysis of global and regional investment policy trends in the World Investment Report, the Investment Policy Monitors and the UNCTAD-OECD Reports on G20 Measures.

    In 2024, to further strengthen the quality of reporting, UNCTAD revised the methodology of monitoring investment policy measures. and revised the measures going back to 2012 accordingly.

    The Investment Policy Monitor provides the international investment community with country-specific, up-to-date information about the latest developments in foreign investment policies.

    Through its monitoring of investment policy changes, UNCTAD offers cutting-edge and innovative contributions to investment policy discourse, and contributes to preparing the ground for future policymaking in the interest of making foreign investment work for sustainable development.

  • The UNCTAD's Investment Policy Monitor database include official measures affecting FDI adopted by United Nations Member States. These encompass measures explicitly targeting FDI (FDI-specific), as well as general investment measures with a clear impact on foreign investment (FDI-related). The measures are either reported directly to UNCTAD by Member States through annual surveys or identified by UNCTAD researchers through publicly accessible sources (such as government websites and specialized policy databases). The classification of measures as more or less favourable is based solely on their potential impact on investors.

    Note: Measures are verified, to the fullest extent possible, by referencing government sources. The compilation of measures is not exhaustive.

    Disclaimer: the boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations.

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