Tag: mobile money tax

The High Court in Kampala has thrown out a case in which two mobile money users sued Uganda Revenue Authority for taxing their mobile money deposits. Government recently scrapped off ...

Telecom companies have  announced they have scrapped all taxes on sending, receiving, depositing and making any form of payments using mobile money services. Parliament in May passed the Excise Duty ...

The State Minister for Finance, David Bahati yesterday told parliament that the Mobile Money tax Law would be gazetted Friday and there after new rates on Mobile Money tax take ...

The Ministry of Finance has turned its back on an earlier directive by President Museveni to refund mobile money tax for those that were affected while the levy stood at ...

Members of Parliament who voted against the proposed Mobile Money tax have accused their National Resistance Movement (NRM) colleagues of cutting a deal with president Museveni to maintain the Mobile ...

Parliament yesterday voted to support the proposal to slap 0.5% tax on mobile money transactions during a dramatic sitting that stretched for more than four hours. The votes for MPs ...

Some Members of Parliament are concerned that colleagues summoned to State House, Entebbe last night to meet with President Yoweri Museveni over the mobile money tax maybe compromised. The dominant ...

Finance Minister David Bahati has told Parliament’s Committee on Finance that after reducing the Mobile Money tax to 0.5 per cent, government is mooting the idea of taxing “alternative payment ...

A suit against three telecom companies including Airtel, MTN and Africell by concerned Ugandans challenging charging of  a tax on mobile money deposits has been dropped by the High Court ...

Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah wants accountability Committees to focus their efforts on queries involving huge sums of money. Oulanyah, who opened the annual Accountability Sector Review in Munyonyo, said it ...