Month: January 2025

Government has tabled before Parliament a proposed 49.9 trillion Shillings National Budget for the coming financial year 2023/2024. This indicates a slight increase of 1.85 trillion from the 48.13 trillion approved budget for the current financial year 2022/2023. The figures are contained in the National Budget Framework Paper tabled before

The Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Social Security Fund - NSSF - has urged members, stakeholders and the public that the process leading to the appointment of a substantive Managing Director for the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is still ongoing. Following consultations with various key stakeholders, Dr.

Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija has committed to ensuring that all civil servants access their December salaries today. He made the commitment while responding to a query by Hoima City East Division MP, Patrick Mwesigwa Isingoma regarding reports from different Local Governments that civil servants will not receive their December salaries until mid-January

Several business operators in Kampala's central business district are reporting poor sales this Christmas season. Although Christmas is just a day away, the traders say they are yet to make the sales they often make in this season. This is the first Christmas since the government fully reopened the economy following

Rt. Rev. Joseph Antony Zziwa, the chairman of the Uganda Episcopal Conference. The government should give an account of every person who has remained incommunicado as a Christmas present to their families, Catholic Bishops have requested. This was part of the Christmas message delivered by Rt. Rev. Joseph Antony Zziwa, the

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is expected to collect Shs28.831Trn in  FY 2023/2024 in revenue, according to information obtained from the National Budget Framework Paper that was tabled before Parliament by Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija (pictured). According to the Ministry of Finance, the Shs28.831Trn will translate

The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development has revealed plans to spend Shs6.135Trn on interest payment for the loans acquired by Government to finance its national budget, an amount that is equivalent to 2.9% of Uganda's GDP. According to the National Budget Framework Paper for FY 2023/24, of the

Jailed: Rubanjwa The Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala has jailed a renowned city accountant of fraud. Jackson Wabyona Rubanjwa being a Tax Consultant for Sun Mutual Capital Limited and Jireh Hardware and Construction (2014) Ltd during the period of January 2018 to March 2022 in Kampala District, generated and issued false

The High Court sitting in Kampala has dismissed without cost an application for the judicial review of the agreement between the government of Uganda and Uganda Vinci Coffee Company. The application by Henry Byansi and Michael Aboneka, both city lawyers sought a court declaration that the actions of the Minister of Finance Planning and