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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Budadiri West Member of Parliament, Nathan Nandala Mafabi has disagreed with the Parliament’s Finance Committee on taxing loss-making businesses. In his minority report accessed by Uganda Radio Network-URN on the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2019, Nandala opposes the 0.5 percent tax on loss-making …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has ruled out Ebola Outbreak in Kagadi district. This follows the death of Benon Ahorwendire 50, a resident of Kanyegaramire village in Kyenzige Sub County. He died from Kagadi Hospital after presenting signs similar to those of an Ebola patient. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Copy of MP Okot’s letter to President Museveni seeking for about Ugx 32M to finance the first Lango Stakeholders conference Legislators from Lango Sub region have rushed to President, Yoweri Museveni asking him to consider financing their first stakeholder’s conference. The conference is tentatively …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Environmental activists have decried the syndicated illegal exploitation of valuable tree species in Northern Uganda. It comes follows the increasing harvesting of the indigenous Afzelia Africana tree species in Gulu, Amuru, Lamwo, Kigtum and parts of Omoro districts by unknown persons. The activists say trucks …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Finance Committee of parliament has recommended the amendment of the Income Tax Act to exempt agricultural supplies from withholding tax. In its report to parliament, a copy of which URN has seen, the committee recommends the amendment of Section 118 of the Income tax …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Anthony L. Makana, the Speaker of the South Sudan Transitional National Assembly has apologized over his government’s failure to compensate Ugandan traders for goods and services supplied. Makana issued the apology while hosting a select committee of Ugandans legislators on South Sudan led by Ann …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has passed the Value Added (Amendment) Tax Bill, 2019 approving VAT exemption of imported mathematical and geometry sets used in schools. Members of Parliament in a plenary session chaired by Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah approved the Finance Committee report recommendation slightly moving away from …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah deferred debate on the Tax Procedures Code (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on Tuesday afternoon. Through the bill, government is seeking approval from parliament to write off tax arrears amounting to Shillings 499 billion. The Finance Ministry tabled the Bill …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has urged the Buganda Parliamentary Caucus to support the people of Busoga in opposing clauses in the Sugar Bill that are not in the interest of sugarcane out growers. Kadaga is opposed to the proposed zoning of cane growers, …

Kenya’s first human milk bank has opened at Pumwani Maternity Hospital. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, spoke to the team spearheading APHRC’s research efforts in the establishment of Kenya’s first milk bank. How long has it taken to open? What were the biggest obstacles? The process of establishment of …