URA shakes off Covid-19 with surplus in revenue
Tuesday December 29 2020
Customers shopping in Kampala ahead of Christmas Day. Currently, the country funds only 47 per cent of the national budget and the balance is sourced externally through borrowing whose terms and conditions are not usually favourable. Photo | Eronie Kamukama
Summary
Despite being in the midst of lockdown, URA in the first quarter FY 2020/21 (July to September) collected Shs4 trillion against a target of Shs2.9 trillion, resulting in a significant surplus of Shs1 trillion, Ismail Musa Ladu writes.
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Ismail Musa Ladu writes.
“Crisis? What crisis?”
This is the feeling at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) after registering a revenue surplus in 2020 when the Covid-19 crisis and containment measures, have taken a toll on almost all businesses.