Tax Push Sparks Backlash as Experts Warn Shs4.8tn Drive Could Stifle Growth
Economists and tax experts warn that government’s plan to raise Shs4.8 trillion through new taxes, including a fuel levy, could increase inflation, slow construction ac...
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Uganda to earn over Shs2.2t from first oil exploration in 2026/27
State Minister for Finance in charge of General Duties, Henry Musasizi, during the presentation for the 2026/27 Ministerial Policy Statement before Parliament’s Committ...
How Mobile Money Taxes Are Squeezing Life Ouf of Small Businesses
Rising mobile money transaction and withdrawal charges are increasingly eating into the profits of small businesses in Uganda, with traders and MSMEs warning that the hig...
Science Teachers On Government Payroll To Earn Shs8 Million A Month As Uganda Moves To Make Teaching One Of Its Best-Paid Professions
For years, Uganda’s brightest university students have steered away from education degrees, gravitating instead toward medicine, law, and engineering — courses percei...
6 Ugandans Arrested in Connection to USD 3.4 Mn Equity Bank Rwanda Digital Heist
The cross-border heist signifies a new frontier in the evolving nature of financial crime, where digital fraud is increasingly sophisticated, fast-moving and now, transna...
Uganda’s Public Debt Hits Record UGX 130 Trillion as Domestic Borrowing Surge Raises Alarm
KAMPALA – Uganda’s public debt has surged to a record US$34.86 billion (UGX 130.84 trillion) as of December 2025, piling fresh pressure on the government’s fiscal m...
Mobile money taxes reversing digital financial inclusion in Uganda
Uganda’s mobile money tax policy is threatening to reverse years of digital financial inclusion by driving low-income users back to cash. With 43 million accounts proce...
EC Gambles on Kamugisha as Dossier Exposes Mismanaged Billions, Weak Policies, Questionable Deals & An Outdated 2013 ICT System
New EC Secretary KamugishaA shocking audit into the operations of the Electoral Commission has laid bare a catalogue of financial and administrative failures that have th...
MPs warn it could take 48 years to clear Uganda’s Shs8.4t domestic arrears
Appearing before Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, Ramathan Ggoobi, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, and Secretary to the Treasury.Parliament has been tol...
NMS ROT RELOADED! New Report Exposes Drug Delivery Failures, Billions in Expired Medicines & A Brewing Succession War Around Kamabare
A thunderous alarm has been sounded over Uganda’s lifeline for public medicines after the latest report from the Auditor General ripped open the operations of the Natio...