Tag Archives: tobacco

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators on the Parliament Committee of Finance have expressed concern over proposed increase of taxes on cigarettes saying they will hit hard tobacco farmers and companies at a time everyone needs cushion to recover from coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. In the 2020/21 financial, Uganda proposes …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament passed the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020 scrapping taxation on processed tobacco restricting it on the unprocessed leaf for export. The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Hon. Henry Musasizi, in his report to Parliament said that the tax measures are meant to …

Huge taxes will continue to water down dividends Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Have you ever imagined running a company that hands over a huge chunk of its revenue to government as tax compared to shareholders’ dividends? This is the situation that managers at the British American Tobacco Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court Commercial Division in Kampala has issued a four-day interim order restraining Uganda Revenue Authority – URA from enforcing the digital tax stamps. The development comes after Muwema and Company Advocates, acting on behalf  Sylvester Kamuli went to court challenging the implementation …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 1,000 farmers in Acholi sub region are stuck with at least 200 metric tons of tobacco worth Shillings 1.4 billion. The farmers from Omoro, Lamwo, Gulu, Amuru, Nwoya and Pader districts were contracted by Alliance One Tobacco (Uganda) Limited to grow the …

Blantyre, Malawi | AFP |  Malawi is being forced to confront child and forced labour practices after the US restricted tobacco imports from the impoverished southeastern African nation over allegations workers including children were being exploited. Although exports to the United States make up only a small part of Malawi’s total, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Harris International (Riham) and Leaf Tobacco and Commodities have set the pace by being the manufacturers to commence stamping of their products using the newly introduced Digital Tax Stamps (DTS). Uganda on Friday started implementing a Digital Tracking Solution (DTS) for excise duty through the implementation …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Shares in British tobacco giant Imperial Brands slumped Thursday after it issued a profit-warning linked to a backlash against vaping in the United States. Imperial, whose e-cigarette brand is blu and traditional tobacco brands include Davidoff and Gauloises, expects annual revenue to grow 2.0 percent, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation is calling upon countries to increase measures being taken up to help  citizens stop smoking tobacco. The call was made on Monday during the release of 2018 Global Tobacco Epidemic report in Brazil. According to the report, despite strides made by …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continued use and growing of Tobacco in W. Nile has attracted criticism from Public Health Activists. In a fresh public outreach campaign in Arua, the Activists under the umbrella of Uganda Health Communication Alliance – UHCA, have described tobacco use as a dangerous product …