By John Olowo In an operation dubbed Rolling Thunder, the URA team one enforcement team recently combed all roads heading to the Central Business District and impounded the following goods; 34,385.714 square meters of textile material, 700sets of Bedsheets, 8,276 pieces of t-shirts, 1,115 pieces of Phones and 3,475 kilograms of Basmati Rice. The goods …
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By Annet Nantongo Black is beautiful and Beyonce a renowned music star, will be remembered for her song with Blue Ivy where they encouraged Brown skin girls to love their melanin popping pearly skins. However, some ladies do not agree with this notion and for others, they’ve taken to altering their skin tone as a …
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By Annet Nantongo URA will potentially collect more than 36 million from a textile smuggler that was intercepted in Jinja on Tuesday this week. The URA enforcement officers in Jinja intercepted a Toyota Kluger that was fully loaded with smuggled textiles from Kenya that was loaded with 300kgs of plain polyester textile from India and …
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By Akinyi Winiefred URA has seized smuggled goods worth over UGX 200 million in taxes and penalties in Mbale district. The goods were impounded in focused operations carried out in the last two weeks, according to customs officer Luke Kivumbi. Mbale district has in recent years become a hotbed for smuggling, with smugglers using porous …
By Joshua Niyonshima and Kamugisha Allan Kabahweza President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has upheld the use of the Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing System (EFRIS) by traders, citing its importance to business transparency. Addressing traders at the Kololo ceremonial grounds on Tuesday, the President said that EFRIS is not problematic, as earlier alleged by a section …
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By Irene Kabakama Wu Su, a 38-year-old Chinese national has been remanded to prison over possible tax evasion. Following investigations that commenced in June last year, URA’s Tax Investigations Department discovered suspicious transactions on Wu Su’s bank accounts yet he is not registered for taxes, an offence provided for in sections 62(a) of the Tax …
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By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan URA enforcement in Bugango has impounded 157 cartons of petroleum jelly, soap, and yeast in an overnight ambush on a Canter tipper registration UAR 075 C. The petroleum jelly, according to Customs Officer Abdullatif Musau, originated in Tanzania. He explained that they received information from reliable informants about the habitual smuggler …
By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan Two individuals arrested for extorting importers have been released on police bond. Sserwanga William and Nuwagaba Pius were taken into custody last week following reports that they were extorting importers under false pretence of being URA informants They would threaten to report them to the tax body if they did not …
By Kamugisha Kabahweza Allan Uganda Revenue Authority is set to collect about ugx 115 million in penalties from vehicles that were impounded in anti-smuggling operations in Eastern Uganda last month. According to Paul Karatunga the Supervisor of Customs enforcement in Eastern Uganda, the nine motor vehicles were caught conveying contraband. “We recovered 700 rolls of …
By Annet Nantongo URA enforcement officers in Elegu were treated to comic antiques by a smuggler in Alinyapi using hidden pathways along River Onyama, a racket of youths had resorted to transporting their loot across the water body for trading in the Ugandan territory. As is with most water bodies in the East African region, …
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