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  • Gov’t to review law on Mobile Money, social media taxes

    Posted: 11 Jul 2018 Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda has announced plans by government to propose an amendment to the Excise Duty (Amendment) Act 2018, which imposed taxes on Mobile Money transactions and social media....

  • Let’s build more cancer wards – Kadaga

    Posted: 11 Jul 2018 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has urged Rotary Uganda to focus its cause on building and equipping more cancer wards in rural hospitals. Kadaga made the call while launching the Seventh...

  • Students, vendors ask Speaker to revisit new taxes

    Posted: 09 Jul 2018 Makerere University Guild anda section of mobile-money vendors have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga to intervene and cause the review of the recently passed Excise Duty (...

  • Kadaga opens Uganda Culture Park in China

    Posted: 09 Jul 2018 In a move geared to promote Uganda’s tourism, the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has launched a Uganda culture park in China. Located at Shaping Street, Kaifu District in Hunan Province in...

  • MPs direct West Nile officials to recover funds

    Posted: 05 Jul 2018 The Public Accounts Committee (Local Governments) has directed Accounting Officers in West Nile Region to immediately take measures to recover funds spent but not supported by necessary documents....

  • Oulanyah commends Rotarians, donates Shs40m to polio vaccination

    Posted: 05 Jul 2018 Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has praised Rotarians for financial propriety, saying the entirety of their existence has seen no corruption of whatever kind to their name. Oulanyah presided over...

  • Oulanyah clarifies on passing of social media tax

    Posted: 03 Jul 2018 The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah has said that the proponents of the social media and mobile money taxes sought funds for development purposes. Oulanyah who was speaking at the launch...

  • Kadaga calls for favourable investment policies for Ugandans in Diaspora

    Posted: 02 Jul 2018 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca  Kadaga, has asked  government to re-evaluate the Investment Policy in a bid to offer and improve  incentives to Ugandans in the Diaspora to invest back home....

  • Kadaga wants NSSF Act reviewed

    Posted: 29 Jun 2018 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called for an amendment to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Act to allow persons access their savings before the age of 50.   Kadaga said it is...

  • Do not fund RDCs, MPs warn local governments

    Posted: 29 Jun 2018 The Public Accounts Committee (Local Governments) has directed district local governments to desist from funding Resident District Commissioners (RDCs), whose budget is provided by the President’s...

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