By Jacinta Obore Mirembe Abel Kagumire, the Commissioner for Customs met with traders in the Oceanic Bus Terminal where he engaged them on the new clearance guidelines that will require all goods headed for the station to be cleared through the Document Processing Centre (DPC). Kagumire assuaged the trader’s fears that there would be delays …
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By Joseph Balikuddembe John Musinguzi, the URA Commissioner General yesterday shared with the delegates at the ATAF annual meeting on the importance of transparency as a deterrent to illicit financial flows (IFF). His discussion hinged on the use of open data in tax administration, bridging illicit financial flow gaps and information sharing among others. He …
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By Arthur Muhanguzi In the smuggling , a consolidation centre is a facility where a smuggler after successfully getting his contraband inland finally gathers it all together to do ‘business’. These ‘goods’ usually don’t have customs clearance documents as the smugglers use porous points in the border districts to get them into Uganda on either …
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By Kabahweza Kamugisha Allan URA Customs in Jinja has impounded 10,000 pieces of Kitenge fabric that had been smuggled into the country. Philip Ofubo, a customs officer attached to the Jinja office said the fabric was seized in an operation that was conducted at the Nile Bridge last Thursday night. “We got information of a …
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The URA team in Namayingo recently received information from an intel group regarding a Local Government motor vehicle, registration number LG0019-18, that had consistently been ferrying smuggled goods from Kenya to Uganda. It was reported that the vehicle frequently navigates through feeder roads to evade detection. In order to address this frustration, URA officers were heavily …
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