Singer David Lutalo has cried out to government and other stakeholders to invest in the music industry. He said there is so much money in the industry but people to invest in it are very few. Uganda’s entertainment industry is one of the sectors that generate a lot of revenue for the government. Unfortunately, it is not cared for or ...
Read More »URA Misses First Quarter Target By Nearly Half A Trillion Shillings
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has missed its target for the first quarter of the financial year 2021/22 by Shs 499.49bn. Out of the projected Shs 4.959 trillion target set by the government, the tax body managed to collect only shs 4.459 trillion. However, there has been a registered revenue collection growth of shs 389.7 billion from the 2020/21 collections of ...
Read More »URA Confiscates Bobi Wine’s Armored Car, Orders Him To Pay Heavy Fine To Regain It
A few months back, NUP principal Bobi Wine came out on his social media pages to break news to his fans of how he had added an armored car to his fleet. This was no ordinary car as it made headlines in the country and all over social media. Everybody talked and it seemed the new Boda Boda anthem around ...
Read More »Uganda Revenue Authority Releases 2021 Tax Evaders’ Shame List
The Uganda Revenue Authority has released a list it calls a shame list with names of people and organizations that are top tax evaders in Uganda. URA isn’t directing this list at only shaming the people on it, it also serves as a warning to them. The public notice with the names of the tax defaulters warns of possible prosecution. ...
Read More »The Return Of OTT Tax Not Exciting At All, Apparently
The government restored the internet, and the return of OTT tax doesn’t seem exciting at all. The public is used to Virtual Private Networks to the point that they just didn’t miss OTT tax anymore. Much as there is no denying that accessing the internet has been hard with a lot of inconsistencies that come with VPNs, a few seem ...
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