A 2024 PWC-PSFU report revealed that the introduction of DTS has led to a 30 percent increase in revenues, reaching 963.4 billion Shillings, up from 740.8 billion Shillings.
In the first seven months of 2023/2024, government expenditure was 20.68 trillion, out of the 24 trillion that had been planned, with interest payments shooting by 47 billion beyond the budgeted.
The order signed by the Deputy Registrar Dr. Agnes Nkonge stays URA from enforcing the transition period deadline which the tax body had set before slapping heavy fines to manufacturers and importers of several gazette goods including bottled water, soda, beer, wine, spirits, and tobacco.
Authorities note that though the municipality has been hosting the day for years with a lot of indirect benefits due to the influx of people in the area for over almost a month, they have been lacking a proper plan strategized to ensure that the municipality remit some revue to its coffers.
Brig Ronald Bigirwa, the Commandant of the UPDF Service Brigade made the appeal while presiding over the graduation of 50 drivers and 52 store men at the UPDF School of Supply and Transport-SOST in Jinja district on Friday.
Bagamuhunda also operates Freedom Institute for Law and ICT Studies (FILIS) under Freedom Radio in the same building. Our reporter visited the radio station premises along Bwankosya drive in Kabale municipality and found it locked with two padlocks.
Gorette Ita, of Wakawaka Waragi Bureau, says that Kakira Sugar Works limited was selling molasses at 20,000 Shillings per tonne which would lead to production of 400 litres of waragi in a period of two days adding that, it takes two weeks to acquire the same quantity.
The Observer disputes the claims, saying that it has been engaging the tax body since December 2018 to try and clear discrepancies between their figures and those of URA.
The fishermen pay, annual fee of 250,000 shillings as income tax, 100,000 for the trading license, 100,000 for the boat and 50,000 for working permits.
Paul Omer, the Soroti Mayor says the new beneficiary municipalities dont have development plans for big infrastructure projects yet it is one of the requirements.
Bernard Okello, the Luweero Human Resource Officer, told URN that the transfers are aimed at reorganizing the staff structure and stopping revenue leakages.
After a month, scrutinising the bill and interacting with different stakeholders, the finance committee is compiling the report before it can be read in the house.
Kenneth Khatuli Waniaye, the Deputy Town Clerk Mbale Municipal, says transporters declined to pay their operational due, saying all dues were suspended by President, Yoweri Museveni in 2017.
Mabamba Swamp lies in an area that covers about 2,424 hectares on the shoreline of Lake Victoria. It stretches through a narrow bay that meets the shoreline of Lake Victoria in the southern part of Wakiso district. The area is a sanctuary for the shoebill, a bird species that feed on lung fish and It is a common breeding place for lung fish.
