Tanzania · Business & founder
Tanzania Mainland Investor Permit (TISEZA)
Reformed
Last verified July 2026
Reformed. The Tanzania Investment Act 2022 has been REPEALED. The Tanzania Investment and Special Economic Zones Act No. 6 of 2025 merged the Tanzania Investment Centre and the EPZ Authority into TISEZA, live from 1 July 2025. Separately, the Zanzibar Revenue Board no longer exists — the Zanzibar Revenue Authority was established by Act No. 11 of 2022, effective 13 January 2023.
Worth knowing mainly because the legal furniture moved: the 2022 Investment Act is repealed and TISEZA replaced TIC and EPZA from 1 July 2025. Any structure or advice referencing the Tanzania Investment Act 2022 is built on a repealed statute.
Qualifying routes
$500k
Foreign or joint-venture investor
TISEZA certificate threshold
$50k
Tanzanian investor
domestic threshold
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Class C-2 retired person
aged 55+ with assured income; permit fee USD 500
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $500k
- Total landed cost
- USD 500,000 of capital for a foreign investor, plus Class A permit fees (A-3 other sector USD 3,000; EAC USD 1,500). All classes are capped at 2 years.
- Timeline
- 3–12 months — no dependable published standard following the TISEZA merger
- Physical presence
- Business-based; maximum 2 years for any class
- Family
- dependants via associated permits
- Permanent residency
- None — Tanzania has no permanent residence status
- Citizenship
- Roughly 8 years — 12 months continuous plus 7 years' aggregate in the preceding 10 — with a Kiswahili or English test
- Language test
- Kiswahili or English
- Dual citizenship
- Not permitted — you would have to renounce
- Requirements
- TISEZA certificateUSD 500,000 for foreign or joint-venture investorsclean record
What can go wrong
- The Tanzania Investment Act 2022 is repealed. TISEZA has replaced TIC and EPZA since 1 July 2025 — advice citing the 2022 Act is out of date.
- No permit of any class exceeds 2 years, and there is no permanent residence in Tanzania at all.
- Dual citizenship is prohibited and naturalisation requires renunciation.
- Residents are taxed on worldwide income; the only relief is the 'short-term resident' rule, which applies for at most 2 years in a person's entire life.
- CFC rules exist under sections 73-76 of the Income Tax Act 2004.
- Non-resident CGT on land and buildings rose from 20% to 30% with effect from 1 July 2025.
- Tanzania is a CRS non-participant with no exchange date set.