Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that it’s launching an initiative to help 1.3 billion tobacco-users worldwide kick the habit during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Access Initiative for Quitting Tobacco will help people freely access the resources they need to quit tobacco, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organization (WHO) lists flavours appealing to young people in smokeless tobacco, Shisha and e-cigrattes among the latest tobacco and related industry tactics to attract younger generations. They also list advertising and product placement on movies and social media platforms with paid influencers …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators on the Parliament Committee of Finance have expressed concern over proposed increase of taxes on cigarettes saying they will hit hard tobacco farmers and companies at a time everyone needs cushion to recover from coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. In the 2020/21 financial, Uganda proposes …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament passed the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020 scrapping taxation on processed tobacco restricting it on the unprocessed leaf for export. The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Hon. Henry Musasizi, in his report to Parliament said that the tax measures are meant to …
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Huge taxes will continue to water down dividends Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Have you ever imagined running a company that hands over a huge chunk of its revenue to government as tax compared to shareholders’ dividends? This is the situation that managers at the British American Tobacco Uganda …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Commercial Division in Kampala has issued a four-day interim order restraining Uganda Revenue Authority – URA from enforcing the digital tax stamps. The development comes after Muwema and Company Advocates, acting on behalf Sylvester Kamuli went to court challenging the implementation …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 farmers in Acholi sub region are stuck with at least 200 metric tons of tobacco worth Shillings 1.4 billion. The farmers from Omoro, Lamwo, Gulu, Amuru, Nwoya and Pader districts were contracted by Alliance One Tobacco (Uganda) Limited to grow the …
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Blantyre, Malawi | AFP | Malawi is being forced to confront child and forced labour practices after the US restricted tobacco imports from the impoverished southeastern African nation over allegations workers including children were being exploited. Although exports to the United States make up only a small part of Malawi’s total, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Harris International (Riham) and Leaf Tobacco and Commodities have set the pace by being the manufacturers to commence stamping of their products using the newly introduced Digital Tax Stamps (DTS). Uganda on Friday started implementing a Digital Tracking Solution (DTS) for excise duty through the implementation …
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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Shares in British tobacco giant Imperial Brands slumped Thursday after it issued a profit-warning linked to a backlash against vaping in the United States. Imperial, whose e-cigarette brand is blu and traditional tobacco brands include Davidoff and Gauloises, expects annual revenue to grow 2.0 percent, …
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