Month: December 2024

Lucas Birungi (Center), the Head of Accounts at Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital, appearing before PAC Members of Parliament on Public Accounts Committee have queried the qualifications of Lucas Birungi, the Head of Accounts at Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital. This is after he failed to interpret the hospital’s financial

The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Amos Kankunda, speaking during the plenary sitting on Monday, 06 May 2024 Companies manufacturing electric vehicles, electric batteries, or electric vehicle charging equipment or fabricator of a frame and body of an electric vehicle; and employ 80 percent of Ugandans will not pay

UBL Managing Director, Andrew Kilonzo The Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) has released a report indicating that the high cost of Digital Tax Stamps continues to take a toll on manufacturers, with some closing operations, and thousands of jobs lost. According to the report, there has been an increase in

The smuggled items Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) enforcement officers in Elegu were treated to comic antics by a smuggler in Alinyapi, who was using hidden pathways along River Onyama as a racket of youth resorted to transporting their loot across the water body for trading in the Ugandan territory. As

Some of the impounded vehicles Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is set to collect about Shs115 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

The Finance Committee has urged Parliament to increase the excise duty levy on fuel from Shs1450 per litre to Shs1550 per litre, although the proposal by the government to impose Shs300 per liter on each liter of kerosene has been rejected as such a levy would affect the low income