Tag Archives: Uganda Alcohol Industry Association

Ugandan alcohol manufacturers have expressed their observations on the proposed alcoholic control bill. Many of them have called this bill diversionary and regressive. This happened during a stakeholder meeting that happened at Parliament with a draft of the bill. The Uganda Alcohol Industry Association chairperson, Francis Onopito Ekomoloit said the bill is unfair. This is because it only targets 35% ...

The Uganda Alcohol Industry Association recently released a report indicating that illicit alcohol production is one of the country’s biggest tax leakages. The report showed that the production of illicit alcohol is one of those big tax leakages. Apparently, it costs the government huge sums of money in taxes. ‘’Tax leakage is driven by wide-scale under-declaration of production of spirits. ...

Uganda Alcohol Industry Association released a report recently showing that consumption of illicit alcohol is the cause of mental illness among many. The report was titled  “Understanding and Sizing Illicit Alcohol Consumption in Uganda”. They released it from research done in 2021 by Euromonitor International. According to this report, mental illness has rapidly increased in the previous one year. “In ...