This is very good news. We welcome this development in strengthening legal and policy frameworks on elimination of forced labour especially for countries in the supply chains of the European Union 🇪🇺 ISER Uganda SEATINI UGANDA FIDA Uganda pilac EU in Uganda

'If we are not careful, innovative financing will generate more indebtedness. We need to look at the issue of structural economic transformation.' - Jane Nalunga from SEATINI UGANDA at the #SideEvent cohosted with UN Botswana at #FfDForum 2024

Join us on Thursday April 25th, 2024, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EAT, as our ED, Ms. Jane Nalunga Jane Nalunga, Executive Director @SEATINIUGANDA, joins
experts to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Area and the crucial role of women in the development of society. Register bicorg.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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On March 28, 2024, the Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Hon Henry Musasizi, presented five Tax Amendment Bills to Parliament.

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Early this week, the Tax Justice Alliance Uganda (TJAU) submitted a Position Paper on the Tax Amendment Bills for the Financial Year (FY) 2024/25 to the Parliamentary Committee on Finance for consideration.

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Mark Mutumba, Tax Policy Analyst
Our economy is largely informal and the EFRIS system will distort some of the informal transactions and does not consider some dynamics.
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Edward Ntale, UATEA:
We request the president put the technocrats and us the traders on one table, they present the issues and present ours.
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Mark Mutumba, Tax Policy Analyst
Before the its, VAT collections were 2 trillion and upon introduction of the EFRIS this increased to 3 trillion. With the reduction of foreign aid government needs to look internally by widening the tax base.
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Mark Mutumba, Tax Policy Analyst:
The EFRIS approach started in 2019 but it had to come to a pause due to COVID-19. It is also being used in other African countries like Kenya and Rwanda among others.
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Mark Mutumba, Tax Policy Analyst
It is good for tax advocacy that traders have now become more involved in the taxation discussion.
The issues of traders should not be looked at as just a tax issue; there are many challenges affecting the traders.
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Happening Now!
Our own Mark Mutumba, International Tax Policy Analyst is being hosted on Baba TV along with other panelists to share insights on the meeting between the traders and the president Yoweri K Museveni.
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There is need to adopt a progessive tax regime to promote tax equity. We therefore call upon Government of Uganda to take deliberate steps to shift the burden and have those with a higher propensity to pay more.
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Ensuring a gender- responsive tax system is crucial, as tax policy can either exacerbate or alleviate gender inequality.
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We urge Government of Uganda to take bold steps to improve governance of the tax incentives, so as to reduce revenue loss in all sectors of the economy, including extractives.
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Happening Now!
Our Executive Director, Ms. Jane Nalunga Jane Nalunga, Executive Director @SEATINIUGANDA is participating in the 2024 ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum. Tune in here to follow deliberations in the opening session.
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There is need to expedite the implementation of the Tax Expenditure Governance Framework and Tax Expenditure Rationalization Plan and make it available in the public domain for transparency and scrunity.
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TAX AMENDMENT BILLS FY 2024/25 AND THE QUEST FOR TAX JUSTICE IN UGANDA. youtu.be/nuMwOZl7nDQ?si… via YouTube

The Tax Justice Alliance Uganda has urged the government to withdraw the proposal to introduce tax exemptions on income earned from the disposal of government security on the secondary market.

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