Month: December 2022

Clearing and Forwarding Agents implore URA for more trainings

News / By / December 22, 2022

Joshua Niyonshima Customs Clearing and Forwarding(C&F) agents have requested URA to provide more trainings in Domestic Taxes initiatives especially EFRIS. This request was made by Alhaji Jaffer Abdallah Chairman Uganda Clearing Industry and Forwarding Association (UCIFA), during a meeting between the association and URA EFRIS team that happened at the URA headquarters recently. Explaining their …

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President Museveni urges Government agencies to integrate for facilitation of trade

News, The Lead Story / By / December 22, 2022

By Joshua Niyonshima & Jacquiline Emodek President Museveni has asked for an integrated approach to handling customs activities by having simultaneous framework among government agencies. He made this call during the commissioning of phase one of the Mpondwe-Lhubiriha border market and Mpondwe One Stop Border Post (OSBP) in Kasese district yesterday. The President explained that integrating systems of all …

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URA Busts Illicit Wine Vendors in Busia

News / By / December 20, 2022

by Allan Kamugisha On 16th December 2022, The Busia Enforcement Team received intelligence from Brand Guard, a URA partner tipping them about the garages and bars which were involved in selling illicit goods. This prompted an impetus operation which unearthed consolidation centers for smuggled high end spirits, whiskeys and wines. The busted group was vending …

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URA encourages the financial sector to Digitize and go Cashless

News / By / December 19, 2022

 By Irene Kabakama URA has urged financial sector players and government to digitize processes and reduce on the cash economy as a way of promoting holistic development for the sector. This, the URA Commissioner General John Musinguzi, said during the Ministry of finance tax research conference that was held at Kampala Sheraton hotel, centered on …

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Employing intelligence networks yields big for Iganga customs team

News / By / December 16, 2022

By Winfred K Kusiima One of key strategies URA is relying on to radically scale down on illicit trade is field intelligence enforcement operations. On Wednesday, the customs team in Iganga received information from intelligence networks deployed of a fuso truck registration number UAV 799U that had loaded smuggled garments heading to Kampala. The team …

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Customs intercepts carcinogenic cosmetics on Lake Albert

News / By / December 14, 2022

By Kabahweza Kamugisha Allan URA Officers recently intercepted 269 cartons of contraband cosmetics on Lake Albert. The illegal consignment that had found its way into the country had cosmetic products containing hydroquinone. Customs Officer, Elvis Peter Kairanga said that the cartons of cosmetic products were captured on a boat, but unfortunately, all the people ran …

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Iganga enforcement seizes 8,000 pieces of assorted phones

News / By / December 14, 2022

By Irene Kabakama The URA team in Iganga recently received information about a consolidation centre of a suspected smuggler who had stocked uncustomed phones. He was probably targeting to make bounty harvest; unfortunately, this did not go as planned. He was surprised by an early morning visit at the premises where these goods had been …

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URA impounds casino gaming machines concealed in waste paper

News / By / December 14, 2022

By Kamugisha Kabahweza The ongoing World Cup 2022 means business for Sport Betting Companies to tap into a similar business opportunity, Akumuntu Theophile from Rwanda attempted to conceal used mini coin casino Gaming Machines into Uganda using truck RAB183P/RL0718 to avoid the laid down Customs procedures and hence evade taxes. Theophile aged 36 years, holding …

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Notorious smuggler netted with cigarettes in Karuma

News / By / December 14, 2022

By Peter Sebyoto URA has continued to invoke stringent measures on habitual smugglers including detaining them once proven guilty. Ellion Agumeneitwe yesterday joined the list of those URA is going to penalize for continued smuggling. Agumeneitwe was caught on Monday for false declaration at Karuma. He claimed that he was transporting coffee to Kampala in …

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URA publicists join other practioners in celebrating the industry

News / By / December 13, 2022

Irene Kabakama Recently, staff from URA ’s Public & Corporate Affairs division joined their counterparts in the industry to celebrate with other publicists at the PRAU night held at Skyz hotel Naguru. PRAU Nite is an annual event organized by the Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU) to celebrate the role of PR professionals in …

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