COMMENT: David Chandi Jamwa Bailout – How to get it done and done right without using taxpayers money For the past three months or so I have been seeing myriad opinions, sentiments, emotions, rebuttals, re-rebuttals, postulations, reverse-postulations, forwardings, withdrawals, denials, and in several cases outright rubbish, flying around the Ugandan …
Read More »47bn: URA-KCCA-URBS tax partnership already bearing fruits
A partnership between four Uganda government institutions to widen the tax base through improved collaboration is already bearing fruits as it helped realize an extra sh47.6.bn shillings in revenue in 2015/16. The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), Ministry of Local Government, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) on Thursday …
Read More »VIDEO: URA, NBStv to partner on tax education
Final plans of a Memorandum Of Understanding aimed at sensitizing Ugandans about their tax obligations and duty to national development have been drawn between NBS Television and the Uganda Revenue Authority URA. The tax body’s head Doris Akol said URA would be happy if NBS Television used its platforms to help Ugandans …
Read More »1991-2016: URA to celebrate 25 years of tax transformation
When the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and tax family gather at their Nakawa headquarters on September 15, there will be many milestones to celebrate. September 15, 2016 marks 25 years since inception of URA, having been established by an act of Parliament in 1991 to collect central government revenue and facilitate trade in Uganda. …
Read More »TAXES: Akol’s massive shortfall headache
Having been appointed in October 2014 to replace the long-serving Allen Kagina as commissioner general of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Doris Akol started her tenure on a rather good note. At the presentation of her very first annual revenue performance report in July last year, she was all smiles …
Read More »URA collects record 11.2 trillion, sh400bn short of target
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) collected sh11.23 trillion, 400 billion less than targeted for the fiscal year 2015/16. Despite the shortfall on the target, the tax figures represented a growth of 15.60% (sh1.5 trillion) from the previous year’s figure of sh9.7 trillion collected in revenue. URA has now been taxed to …
Read More »JOBS: Customs expert Kinshasa
Job Opening Posting Title: Customs Expert (System Validation Specialist) Job Code Title: Programme Management Officer Department/Office: UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT Duty Station: KINSHASA Posting Period: 13 July 2016 – 10 September 2016 Job Opening Number: 62460 Staffing Exercise N/A APPLY HERE Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »Magufuli refuses to budge on tourism Value Added Tax
ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome The battle lines are now clearly drawn in Tanzania between the country’s tourism industry and the government, after President Magufuli told the sector off over their dissent about the Value Added Tax of 18 percent, which was unexpectedly heaped on services across the board, …
Read More »TOURISM: Tanzania, like Uganda, faces new VAT battle
ATC News by Wolfgang H. Thome Tanzania’s tourism industry may be in for a rough year ahead should proposals for adding Value Added Tax (VAT) on tourism services be sanctioned by parliament. The 18 percent tax, if implemented, would apply for any service rendered, from park fees to transport and …
Read More »LIVE: URA Budget analysis engangment
The Uganda Revenue Authority together with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on Monday held a seminar to help tax payers understand what they are up against in the budget that was read last week. “We are here to help the ordinary person understand how the budget affects …
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