Tanzania, April 12 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania can curb tax evasion by implementing equitable tax policies, expanding the tax base and enhancing public awareness and education, according to experts.

They spoke after President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Wednesday that some businesspeople have turned the government's voluntary tax compliance policy into an opportunity to evade or under-report taxes.

"We rejected unjust tax collection, but things have now changed. Some traders are defrauding the government by evading tax and thus depriving it of revenue that would have been used to serve the people," she said at the Idd Baraza in Dar es Salaam.

The Head of State added that some public officials work in cahoots with unscrupulous businesspe...