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For Tanzania's banking and financial sector, the Finance Act, 2026 (No. 3 of 2026), effective 1st July 2026, is arguably the most consequential legislative intervention in recent years. It touches banks from multiple directions simultaneously as regulated institutions subject to the Bank of Tanzania, as taxpaying entities under the Income Tax Act, as withholding agents under the VAT regime, as processors of financial transactions subject to stamp duty, and as pillars of an economy being pushed, rapidly and deliberately, toward digitalisation.
