IFRAME SYNC
Home » News » Business » URA To Tax Bibles, Qurans
Ura to tax bible and quran

URA To Tax Bibles, Qurans

The Uganda revenue authority(URA) has come out to introduce taxes on religious books i.e; Quarns, holy Bibles and Hymn books.

Check also: The Bible Helped Me Quit Drugs-Says Former NTV Presenter Dave Dash

This tax however has not been applauded by the people and they’re against it already.

People claim that they thought government taxes things that generate income and these books don’t.

In their defense, the commissioner General of URA Doris Akol said that URA not taxing the religious books in the past years was abnormal.

Taxing by the government on different things keeps on increasing typically.

First it was on the social media tax then after the increase in the mobile money transactions Saccos and also the introduction of the rental tax.

This rate of taxing is totally becoming abnormal

Check also;

This is not a Paywall, but Newslex Point's journalism consumes a lot of time, hard-work and money. That's why we're kindly requesting you to support us in anyway they can, for as little as $1 or more, you can support us .

Please use the button below to contribute to Newslex Point, Inc. using a credit card or via PayPal.

Donate Button with Credit Cards

Comments

comments

Loading...

About Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan

Loading...
x

Check Also

Japanese whisky turns 100 as demand shoots up

Japanese Whisky Turns 100 As Demand Shoots Up

As demand for Japanese whisky soars, one of the country’s must-have brands, Suntory’s Yamazaki, is ...