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10% levy on financial services
KulaRaha
#11 Posted : Saturday, July 27, 2013 7:07:24 PM
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dunkang wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
This is nothing, our dumb Tanzanian brethren have levied 2% tax on the value of the transfer LOOOL...so if you're transferring 10M you pay 200k...and the way they love zeros!

those morons never cease to amaze me...they'll kill official banking and everyone will revert to cash!

I hope you are drunk, because that is next to impossible. But if true, TZ must enter the guiness book of record, for STUPIDITY!


I wish I was drunk...this is a fact!
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Ngong
#12 Posted : Saturday, July 27, 2013 10:39:39 PM
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For those of us who are slow,I go withdraw cash at the ATM,the bank charges me Kshs. 30.
Now from Aug this will be Kshs. 33? ama?
Impunity
#13 Posted : Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:36:15 PM
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Ngong wrote:
For those of us who are slow,I go withdraw cash at the ATM,the bank charges me Kshs. 30.
Now from Aug this will be Kshs. 33? ama?


Ditto and including Mpesa transactions!!!
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radio
#14 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 4:26:20 AM
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Impunity wrote:
Ngong wrote:
For those of us who are slow,I go withdraw cash at the ATM,the bank charges me Kshs. 30.
Now from Aug this will be Kshs. 33? ama?


Ditto and including Mpesa transactions!!!


But have we not being paying this on money transfer already?
Rankaz13
#15 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 9:27:14 AM
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radio wrote:
Impunity wrote:
Ngong wrote:
For those of us who are slow,I go withdraw cash at the ATM,the bank charges me Kshs. 30.
Now from Aug this will be Kshs. 33? ama?


Ditto and including Mpesa transactions!!!


But have we not being paying this on money transfer already?


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dunkang
#16 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 9:50:48 AM
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KulaRaha wrote:
dunkang wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:
This is nothing, our dumb Tanzanian brethren have levied 2% tax on the value of the transfer LOOOL...so if you're transferring 10M you pay 200k...and the way they love zeros!

those morons never cease to amaze me...they'll kill official banking and everyone will revert to cash!

I hope you are drunk, because that is next to impossible. But if true, TZ must enter the guiness book of record, for STUPIDITY!


I wish I was drunk...this is a fact!

Surely, if the state takes all that, then the bank/Dahabshil/western union takes another 2%, what will be remaining to send?
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Magigi
#17 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 11:56:04 AM
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Withdrawn
MatataMingi
#18 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:59:15 PM
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@ Magigi.

I can help explain. Give me the TBill / TBond issue number, how much you invested and what did you quote as an interest rate.
Magigi
#19 Posted : Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:04:55 PM
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MatataMingi wrote:
@ Magigi.

I can help explain. Give me the TBill / TBond issue number, how much you invested and what did you quote as an interest rate.

...Thanks mate...After some checking here and there, I have just discovered it is a certificate of what they retained on the start date...The problem is that they send the certificate when the due date is just next week...
...Lakini shida ya kutoelewa Economics kwangu ni kubwa...
...With the government out to tax everything, you kind of get scared when yo receive documents like these!
mwekez@ji
#20 Posted : Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:54:36 AM
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