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MTN Uganda has today (Saturday 17th November, 2018) implemented the revised tax measures on mobile money transactions – from 1% to 0.5% on withdrawals only. The implementation comes after the assenting of the Excise Duty (Amendment) Act (2018) into law by President Yoweri Museveni. This Act reduces the tax that went into
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Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Ssentamu Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine will today Tuesday appear in court over charges of inciting violence and holding an unlawful assembly. The development was revealed on Tuesday morning by sources close to the singer. Bobi Wine, together with his colleagues on Wednesday July 11th held a
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Government has come up with a new position on the infamous Mobile Money tax and Over The Top services (OTT) tax, commonly known as the social media tax. This was announced by Finance Minister David Bahati on Tuesday morning at a Press Conference held at the Uganda Media Centre. According to Bahati,
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By Onesmus Ahabwe. At the Launch of the exorbitantly expensive Kampala-Entebbe express highway, the fountain of honour remarked in Luganda that; "olaba mwamanyinyiira ebyobweleere, naye eno yakusasulila" loosely translated...you know you got used to free things but to use this one [road] you will have to pay a fee. This express highway is
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Kyadondo East MP and singer Bobi Wine’s friend popularly known as Eddy Mutwe has been arrested over his involvement in Wednesday’s Social Media and Mobile Money taxes protest. A group of activists led by Bobi Wine held a protest in the city centre on Wednesday against the much criticized taxes. Kampala Metropolitan
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President Yoweri Museveni has directed that all those people who were earlier deducted the 1% Mobile Money Tax while making transaction be refunded. The president said the 1% mobile money tax came by mistake. “Parliament, when it reconvenes, will be requested to correct it. The ones whose deductions had been made on
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President Yoweri Museveni has spoken out on the much criticized Social Media and Mobile Money taxes that took effect on 1st July 2018. Below is his statement, which was shared on his official Facebook page; Dear Ugandans, Greetings. I am using social media to share with you the reasons for the social-media tax and
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Bunyole West Member of Parliament James Waluswaka has advised Ugandans to “just die” if they do not want to pay their taxes. Waluswaka made the comment while speaking to local television NTV in response to the much criticized and impugned Social Media and Mobile Money taxes. The legislator argued that the country
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