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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Revenue Authority posted a revenue shortfall of 690.3 Billion Shillings in the first four months of the 2021/22 financial year with all tax-heads registering shortfalls except stamp duty. This meant that the government also had to adjust expenditure programs in line with the …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The inadequate number of town agents is hindering the local revenue collection in Pece-Laroo division in Gulu city. The division has six agents instead of the required 19. According to the division’s revenue performance report for the first quarter of the 2021/2022 financial year, only …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government in the month of November registered a revenue shortfall of 52.18 billion Shillings against its target for the month. This is highlighted in the Ministry of Finance monthly report on the performance of the economy released on Monday. Government through the Uganda Revenue Authority-URA …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu city officials are under investigation for mismanaging the operations and revenue collection of Gulu main market whose construction was completed in 2015 under the Market and Agricultural Trade Improvement Programme Project (MATIP). The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (Local Government) sitting on Tuesday, 14 December 2021 …

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbarara city leaders have expressed concern over the decreasing local revenue for the financial year 2021/22. The city had projected to collect 1 Billion Shillings for the first quarter of the financial year, but only 500 Million Shillings was collected. The leaders accuse the contractors …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) has asked the Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development to alter the Income Tax (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2021 to allow government levy windfall tax on a monthly basis. In its current state, the Bill that is being scrutinised …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations have cautioned that allowing the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) to retain petroleum revenue will mark the beginning of an oil curse in Uganda. They have now asked the finance committee of Parliament to reject a proposal by the government to have UNOC …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mbale city leaders have introduced new measures of collecting revenue. In the previous financial year, the council suffered a shortfall of more than two billion Shillings. It collected 900 Million Shillings out of the projected 3.5 Billion Shillings. In the 2017/2018 financial year, only 2 Billion …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations want the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to come up with specific strategies that can enable them to mobilize revenue from young people working in the informal sector. Xavier Ejoyi, the country director Action Aid Uganda said during a dialogue held in Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Revenue Authority-URA has missed its target for the first quarter of financial year 2021/22 by 499.49 billion shillings. Out of the 4.959 trillion shillings target government pledged, the tax body managed to collect 4.459 trillion shillings. However, this is a revenue collection growth of …