Month: November 2022
Angola Revenue Administration benchmarks on URA ’s Single Window System
Elizabeth Nakiru Recently, a team from the Angola Revenue Administration visited URA to benchmark on the application of the Single Window System. The Electronic Single Window System(ESWS) facilitates taxpayers especially traders and government regulatory agencies involved in international trade to lodge information and documents within a single entity. This is intended for fulfilling import, export …
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Overview of the oil and gas sector
In 1925, the petroleum potential of Uganda was documented by a Government GeologistE.J. Wayland, in the publication “Petroleum in Uganda”. The report documented the existence of oil seepages along the shores of Lake Albert on both the Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo sides of the lake. This was followed by a series of …
URA takes tax gospel to Eastern Uganda
The URA team has this week pitch camped in the suburbs of Mbale & Kapchorwa to court the small traders on their potential to pay tax. The field visits through the Tujenge bus are ongoing to interact with the traders at a personal level. These visits that also include door to door and have attracted …
URA ’s intelligence networks rein in on tax evaders
Immaculate Wanyenze Smugglers have continuously changed tactics by falsifying destinations of consignments, concealed goods and employing unscrupulous agents in order to cheat taxes. However, URA has plugged another gear to cover those costly loopholes to push up its revenue collection figures. Hajara Kyomugisha, is the latest “business person” that can attest to URA ’s intelligence …
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Busitema enforcement team high on alert for smugglers
Despite the ramifications of concealing goods on the Government, businesses and society, the smugglers and their tricks are not dying out. URA has also invested heavily in intelligence guided operations leveraging the use of Non-Intrusive Inspection technology at the different border points and field intelligence enforcement operations to match their “intelligence”. Last week the driver …
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URSB benchmarks on URA ’s simplified digital solutions
By Elizabeth Nakiru The common question among taxpayers has always been the issue of how revenue is used by government, the same audience bracket faces an ease of access to register their businesses, and other services offered by Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB). This, during a URSB benchmark visit to the Taxman, was highlighted as …
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OECD Prepares URA for Regular Exchange of Information
By Irene Kabakama Uganda Revenue Authority hosted the OECD global forum on transparency and exchange of information for tax priorities in a two-day virtual engagement that discussed information security management. This engagement also facilitated mock assessments that will prepare URA for the final exchange of information assessments in January next year. The OECD delegates included …
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Operation Save the Girl Child daunts Kampala smugglers
By Emmanuel Emasu This week, the URA Team one enforcement launched an operation in selected shops and arcades in Kampala to expose traders selling banned cosmetics. This operation was intended to protect the lives of Ugandans who consume the products and also encourage fair competition among traders. Assembled in three teams, the officers moved in to check …
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