Author: Nassuuna Noelyn
After a reasonable period of having released the audios of songs like, More than a conqueror, no way, baba thank you, celebrate amongst others playing on most radios both in the United Kingdom and Uganda, Myco Chris has finally premiered the video for ‘Spread Some Love’ today, Wednesday the 4th of July 2018, which he wrote encouraging each one of us to choose to love than hate. ‘Spread Some Love’ is the title track of his latest album. The album also includes songs like ‘no Way‘which is currently a big hit on most radio stations. Much more, reliable sources…
State Minister for Finance David Bahati has announced that the one percent tax on mobile cash deposits will be scrapped because it was effected in error. ” Depositing money on your account will be for free so that you can be able to transact. Lets continue engaging together so we can make more improvements,” he said. The minister also revealed that government agreed to keep the mobile money tax with cabinet members because the country needs income which can only be got through taxation. Much more, he adds that Uganda needs the lowest tax base in the region and…
Mobile money agents in Luweero district have, in defiance launched a master plan under which they will avoid paying the new tax imposed by government at the start of FY 2018/19. The more than 100 agents say, their tax avoidance plan will will greatly affect the telecommunication companies because they will not be benefiting from it which will hence force them to fight against the unfair tax. According to the observer,the agents in Luweero say, unless the new taxes on mobile money are withdrawn, they will carry out mobile money transactions between themselves in a way that will bring losses to…
The Dididada hit maker, Apass has attacked the Members of Parliament who were in support of passing the social media tax and mobile money tax. According to the artiste, he say that the law makers should grow up and start behaving like grown ups who think about the young generation instead of themselves. “You are all grown up. We can not be paying for things that we use on our phones, those things are none of your business, our apps are none of your business because we already pay tax! The people who passed this law must grow up! This…
Police in Kakiri has arrested a teacher for allegedly defiling his 8-year-old pupil. The suspect identified as Anthony Kayondo was today arrested for allegedly breaching the teachers’ code of conduct and moral ethical behaviour by defiling his own pupil. Kayondo was contracted by the victim’s parents to coach their girl during weekends however was lured into having canal knowlege and defiled her innocence. Kayondo was caught red handed by the residents after seeing the duo branching off to a nearby bush in Nadangila. The residents subjected him to a beating however the situation was contained by the area police. The…
Makerere University student leaders have suggested a 15 per cent yearly tuition fees increment for all courses for the next five years. The student leaders in their recommendation said such an incremental increment instead of the University Council’s approved 41-91 per cent wholesome increment would not only be affordable but would also generate the needed revenues for the institution. If adopted, the increment will start with the 2018/19 academic year incoming students This recommendation follows a benchmarking exercise by a team of seven students leaders appointed to study the causes of recent students’ riots and protests. The issues for the…
The Deputy speaker of parliament, Jacob Oulanya has asked Ugandans to stop complaining about the social media tax because it is very cheap and affordable. According to the deputy speaker of parliament, he believes that the monthly payment of 6000 shillings is very cheap and therefore Ugandans should be compliant and pay he tax for the benefit and development of the country. “6000 shillings is not a lot of money. People should not make noise over such a small amount of money,” he sad. According to Oulanya, he argues that the money collected from taxing social media and mobile money…
The mobile money agents under their association, Kampala mobile money association have together agreed to petition the speaker of parliament over the new mobile money tax on Thursday. The members of this association have agreed to march to parliament on Thursday and talk to the speaker and convince her to eliminate the tax because they have incurred great losses since the tax was implemented. According to members of this association, they argue that very few people are using mobile money taxes due to the expensive transaction costs incurred and the high tax. The mobile money agents say that people are…
As many Ugandans cursed the day the government developed the idea to tax social media usage, NBS TV’s ‘Katch Up’ presenter Anita Fabiola was supporting the tax. “Stop blaming the government for your problems. Thanks,” she wrote. According to her, she thinks that Ugandans need to pay the tax for her business to keep going on. The socialite explained why she thinks people should ‘just pay’ the new tax because people like them need those likes and comments for business. Fabiola’s comments seem to have incited the already angry social media users who immediately reacted to her statement with some…
Ugandan citizens who are running away from paying the social media tax will soon be forced to comply and pay the tax because telecommunications companies have promised to block VPN usage. According to Uganda Communications Commission executive director, Godfrey Mutabazi telecom companies will slowly block VPN applications that are aiding Ugandans to evade paying the social media tax. The social media tax took effect on June 1 at the start of the 2018/2019 financial year. The tax has triggered uproar among Ugandans – some have grudgingly paid it – while others are chest thumping for evading it to access social…