Ministry of Trade2024-11-152024-11-152023https://zarip.planningznz.go.tz/handle/123456789/189The survey on Zanzibar business enabling environment measures and examined six (6) doing business indicators namely starting business, business licensing, getting electricity, property registration, connecting to water and inspections as they apply to a domestic company and business through its life cycle. A fundamental premise surveying and assessing business environment is that economic activities requires good rules and governance that establish and clarify property right and reduce the cost of doing business rules that increase the predictability of economic interactions and provide contractual partners with certainty and protection against abuse. The Survey on ZBEE 2022 revealed that some of the company and business still do not re-register within Online Registration System that lead to lose their legal status and they not be recognized in Business hub for registration, licensing and taxation. Besides, most of SMEs are aware with formalization process although they are not registered in the online system but they request for SMEs identity cards which provided by LGAs. This set will help to get SMEs information, continue to give them training for formalization in the other hand the Government will have database with reliable statistics. The other challenges affecting the starting business is the internal administrative procedures within the authorities with poor customer care, inefficient of workers who works without consider their customers charter and other regulatory instruments. These challenges lead to the delay and time consuming in obtaining particular servicesen-USSOCIAL SCIENCES::Business and economicsTechnical Report