Tanzania, March 18 -- Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has placed domestic revenue mobilisation at the centre of Tanzania's economic strategy, endorsing sweeping tax reforms proposed by a presidential commission as the country faces declining foreign aid and tightening global financing conditions.

Speaking after receiving the report of the presidential commission on tax reforms on 18 March 2026, the President said Tanzania must increasingly rely on its own resources to finance development, warning that geopolitical tensions and changing global dynamics are constraining access to external capital.

"In the emerging global economic order, countries that will succeed are those with stable and predictable economic and trade polic...