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Outcry As Ugandan Govt Introduces New Internet Tax

July 3, 2021 8:03 am

Ugandan internet users have been hit by a new tax on mobile data in a move the country’s opposition leader branded a new assault on freedom of speech.

The levy came into effect on Thursday and imposes a 12 percent excise duty on mobile data, pushing up costs in a nation already bogged down by sky-high data fees.

The new tax is part of a government initiative to raise revenue for public services and will replace a fiercely-contested social media tax imposed in 2018, the minister of state for finance and planning, Amos Lugoloobi, told reporters.

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Ugandan Government To Borrow More $1.89b

December 30, 2019 2:41 pm

Uganda says it planned to borrow 1.89 billion dollars (6.9 trillion shillings) from external lenders in the 2020/2021 (July-June) fiscal year to partly finance its budget.

This could come under pressure as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni seeks re-election.

A finance ministry budget paper on Monday showed that the funds would be in the “form of concessional and non-concessional” credit.

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The paper did not indicate how much was borrowed in the previous financial year.

It also did not indicate from whom the money would be borrowed, but in recent years China has

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Ugandan Govt. plans to issue birth certificates for cattle

July 19, 2019 12:33 am

Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by the Ugandan government.

Ugandan Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja, said the move became necessary to enable government trace where the products are coming from.

Ssempijja explained that the international market demanded that all countries producing food for the European market needed to provide proof so that the food could be traced.

“They want to know where the meat and crop products are coming from.

“They have been impounding and banning …