The forestry agency collects 120 billion shillings in 2017/18

In a statement released yesterday, Chief Accountant (TFS) Peter Mwakosya said the collection implies that TFS had successfully met its collection target of 101 percent.

The target was 118 billion shillings levied on forest products. In June of this year, the collection reached 120 billion Ugandan shillings, "the statement said.

Much of the collection comes from tree sales from farms, while 79% of the crop came from this source. the natural forest administration recorded 40.9 billion shillings or 34 percent of the total collections.

Mwakosya stated that the collection of areas involved tariffs and fees imposed on harvesting trees from natural forests.

transported to the interior of the country and to neighboring countries, and fines imposed on traders who do not comply with the rules and regulations applicable to harvesting and transporting forest products, h. 1 billion shillings of all collections were sent to the Treasury, and 6.9 billion shillings were placed in the Tanzania Forest Fund (TFF), in accordance with the 2002 Forest Law, to finance conservation . The sum of 2.2 billion Sh was remitted to the district councils in the form of a 5% contribution, while 6.3% of the funds were submitted to the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) as than VAT imposed on the forest.

TFS achieved the collection by increasing the improved control and supervision systems of the government's collections, including the electronic payment gateway (GePG).

For his part, the director of planning and resource utilization at TFS, Mohammed Kilongo said he managed to achieve the goal of 98% from various initiatives, including a control increased on the harvesting of trees, the training of the agents in charge of the surveillance and the protection against the voluntary destruction in "Thanks to better working facilities like vehicles of inspection, with the improvement of the well-being civil servants and greater availability of manpower, TFS has achieved higher goals, "he said. TFS achieved recoveries reaching Sh102 billion, or 107 percent of target, he added.