By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan John Musinguzi, the Commissioner General of the URA Authority, has urged clearing and forwarding agents to adhere to the set guidelines to ensure a smooth flow of trade. Musinguzi’s call follows concerns from clearing and forwarding agents about the restrictions on the warehousing of goods imported for re-export. Early this year, …
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By Joshua Niyonshima Mande Africano, the Commissioner General of the South Sudan Revenue Authority, visited John Musinguzi, the URA Commissioner General to share progress on the implementation of the new cargo tracking system. Mande said the move is aimed at eliminating fraud since individuals have been masquerading as officials from the authority and extorting money …
By Irene Kabakama The Uganda National Chambers of Commerce and Industry(UNCCI) in conjunction with URA, SEATINI, and DFCU organized a workshop that aimed to facilitate discourse on the challenges faced by the private sector business community. Olive Kigongo, the President of UNCCI during her remarks revealed the major uphill for business owners is issues concerning taxation …
By Akinyi Winiefred Malaba is a town located in Tororo district on the border of Uganda and Kenya. The town hosts the Malaba One-Stop Border Post, which over sees 500 trucks cross through daily. Aside from serving as a gateway for trade, the town has become a hub for smugglers using porous routes to ferry …
By Annet Nantongo URA is continuously tightening loose ends to curb smuggling in order to protect the trade field. While the taxman preaches engaging and educating traders and taxpayers, some instances have left no choice but to deploy the enforcement strategy. Following the outcry from cigarette manufacturers in the country, the Fort portal enforcement team …
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By Annet Nantongo A traveller aboard an inbound flight from Dubai has been nabbed with “fake hips” that were discovered to be smuggling smart phones. The lady discovered that in fact “her hips did lie” when 40 pieces of phones were found strapped to her hips and in her bosom, hidden beneath several layers of …
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By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan URA enforcement under the Special Revenue Project last week carried out an operation in Mid-Western Uganda to enforce the affixing of digital stamps on the gazetted products. The team inspected shops and related businesses in Mubende, Kibaale, and Kyegegwa where 12,235 cartons of assorted alcoholic kombucha drinks that were unstamped, inactivated, …
By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan A team from the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) recently benchmarked on URA’s contact center in preparation for the expansion of their own. During the visit, the team gained insight into the inner workings of URA’s hybrid chat, which mines data from all URA social media handles and WhatsApp, the …
By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan John Musinguzi, the Commissioner General of the URA has appealed to Ugandans to promote the usage of the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing System (EFRIS) by requesting for fiscalized receipts whenever they buy goods and get VAT-related services. “When a person issues an e-receipt through EFRIS, we are able to collect …
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