Month: October 2022

URA and KRA launch Smart Gates to ease clearance of goods

By Henry Kwaligonza Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) recently launched Smart Gates to facilitate faster clearance through enhanced traffic control at the Eldoret Fuel depot. The Smart Gates under the Regional Electronic Cargo Tracking System (RECTS) project are tools that will facilitate faster clearance, turnaround time of trucks at the oil …

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Smugglers continue to eat into URA revenues

By Immaculate Wanyenze The harsh search for better life is what drives most profit-seeking criminals into smuggling. They are willing to take risks in search of a better life for failure to utilize legal channels. John Paul Wandera, a Director in the Gold Coast Cargo Hauliers Ltd, is one such culprit. He recently ordered for …

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Motor vehicle validation and transfer

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Fraudulent clearing agents warned against tax evasion

By Taxman Reporter It has been discovered that a number of tax fraud schemes are continuously manifesting at points of registration, transit and boarding off of motor vehicles. However, through coordinated exchange of information between URA and other Government agencies, like the Uganda Police, the culprits are already being netted. One of these is , …

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Clamp down on smuggled wheat flour, rice and cosmetics

IMMACULATE WANYENZE & IRENE KABAKAMA With the current economic constraints, some Ugandans have resorted to the shady ways of survival especially through smuggling to dodge tax. However, the Taxman is alert and has intensified on surveillance for wider coverage of porous borders through speed boats, drones and intelligence. Through intelligence networks deployed recently in the …

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