Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Revenue Authority collected 16.6 trillion Shillings, much more than it had estimated in the just-ended financial year. Against a target of sh16.4 trillion, the tax body registered a surplus of sh259 billion, the biggest in its entire history. Compared to the 2017/18 financial …
Read More »Kadaga bitter with URA for taxing albino lotion
Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The speaker of Parliament has expressed her disappointment in Uganda Revenue Authority for continuing to levy taxes on the sun screen Lotion. Sun screen Lotion helps people living with Albinism against the sun rays that cause cancer. The speaker was speaking on Friday at …
Read More »Kadaga bitter with URA for taxing Albino lotion
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The speaker of Parliament has expressed her disappointment in Uganda Revenue Authority for continuing to levy taxes on the sunscreen lotion. Sunscreen Lotion helps people living with Albinism against the sun rays that cause cancer. The speaker was speaking on Friday at a thanksgiving ceremony …
Read More »We need more tourism incentives – operators
UTB says offers are good but the process must be transparent Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s tour operators are requesting government to offer them more tax incentives to boost investment in the sector even as trade experts say the move denies the economy of huge sums of money. …
Read More »Uganda’s budget dilemma
How our government’s attempts to do too many things for all citizens spreads our meager resources too thin THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Poor countries suffer a fundamental contradiction in both design and aspiration. The state is designed and thus seeks to perform functions exactly like states …
Read More »Fight over UTL
The powerful people behind Bemanya Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) looks like a typical company in shambles. In April 2017 it run to court to block a petition seeking to wound it up partly owing to Shs709 billion debts it had accumulated over the years. …
Read More »UTL scandal could be intended- FDC spokesperson
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The scandal about Uganda Telecom Limited-UTL could be a ploy to privatize the company, the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party spokesperson, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has noted. Last month, the Aringa South MP, Alioni Yorke Odria tabled shocking documents indicating that government’s efforts to carry …
Read More »BoU’s printing money saga
Behind Nakalema, Akullo investigation Kampala, Uganda | HAGGAI MATSIKO | At 10am on June 12 Col. Edith Nakalema, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Grace Akullo and their team arrived at Bank of Uganda (BoU). Nakalema who is the head of the Anti-corruption Unit-State House and Akullo who is the …
Read More »Uganda’s Kateshumbwa is new head of World Customs Organisation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Commissioner for Customs Dicksons Kateshumbwa has been elected Chairperson of the World Customs Organization (WCO) Council in Brussels. Kateshumbwa has been the WCO East and South African region Vice Chairman. The Uganda Revenue Authority customs takes over from Uruguay’s Enrique Canon. “I thank the Global …
Read More »Police launches hunt for traffic penalty defaulters
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Metropolitan Traffic Police Commander Norman Musinga has launched a hunt for drivers with unsettled traffic penalties. The traffic police estimate that express penalty receipts worth 52 billion Shillings have not been cleared since 2007. Musinga says that traffic police officers have been deployed …
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