By Irene Kabakama Uganda Revenue Authority has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with His Majesty Revenue and Customs (HRMC) to partner in the areas of capacity building and exchange of information. The MoU was penned down by URA Commissioner General John Musinguzi and Rachel Austin, the Head of the International Capacity Building at HMRC. Currently, …
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By Winiefred Akinyi Recently, Uganda Revenue Authority has been on the spot on an array of issues, including the implementation of the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) and enforcement measures that taxpayers say are choking them. The traders have complained about URA’s enforcement teams intercepting customers asking for fiscalized receipts and the closure …
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By Joshua Niyonshima The media has been awash with stories of traders in downtown Kampala protesting against the implementation of URA’s Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing System (EFRIS) and what they allege as double taxation of Value Added Tax (VAT). The traders claim that they pay VAT on goods while purchasing them from manufacturers or …
By Irene Kabakama Uganda Revenue Authority has called for cooperation and collaboration from Uganda Breweries (UBL) to tackle issues that affect the alcohol industry. In the meeting held at Nakawa, the two bodies discussed ways in which to improve the working relations and also iron out issues raised by the alcohol industry stemming from the …
By Irene Kabakama In light of the ongoing strike by a section of traders against the Uganda Revenue Authority’s Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution, there have been voices calling for the system to be paused temporarily or removed totally. Appearing before the Parliamentary Committees on Finance and Trade yesterday, the URA Commissioner General John Musinguzi …
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By Irene Kabakama A delegation from the Tanzania Revenue Authority is on a 5-day working visit to benchmark the Uganda Revenue Authority’s monitoring and evaluation processes. The delegation is being led by Masoud Mohammed Al-Biman, a senior lecturer in the Human Resource and Administration Department at TRA, who revealed that the tax body is looking …
By Dismas Nuwaine Uganda Revenue Authority’s tax education team met with officials from the Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC) to discuss the building components and operation of the Electronic Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS). Hafsah Seguya, a tax expert at URA, clarified some of the misconceptions about the system. First, she made it clear that …
By Irene Kabakama This week the staff compliance division embarked on a sensitization drive to educate stakeholders in mid-western Uganda on integrity and its impact on revenue mobilization. The campaign, spearheaded by James Abola, the Assistant Commissioner of Staff Compliance, is targeting both internal and external stakeholders and has so far covered the districts of …
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Dismas Nuwaine Last week, officials from URA went to Ndejje University where they equipped practical skills in tax to students. They focused on students that have taxation as a course unit. According to Andrew Kyakonye, the training is aimed at enabling University Tax Society Students acquire valuable hands-on experience in related tax matters while giving …
