equity - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:50:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 CSOs call for transparency in taxation https://www.weinformers.com/2016/06/06/csos-call-for-transparency-in-taxation/ https://www.weinformers.com/2016/06/06/csos-call-for-transparency-in-taxation/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:50:20 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=45540 Civil Society Organizations have asked Uganda Revenue Authority to exercise total transparency and equity when taxing them. Speaking at a dialogue between URA and Civil Society, the executive director Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda Cissy Kagaba said URA is being used to restrain organizations that are critical of government. She said that some of the taxes levied on these […]

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]]> TaxationCivil Society Organizations have asked Uganda Revenue Authority to exercise total transparency and equity when taxing them. Speaking at a dialogue between URA and Civil Society, the executive director Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda Cissy Kagaba said URA is being used to restrain organizations that are critical of government. She said that some of the taxes levied on these organizations are not justified yet most of them are working for charity.

However the commissioner internal audit and compliance at URA Protazio Begumisa has dismissed the allegations, saying that CSOs have specific taxes they pay, but many simply avoid them.

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for applications from qualified women to fill its vacant posts including the post of national programme specialist (UN women).

Because of this the government of Uganda is committed to UN reform and has requested the UN system in the country to accelerate its efforts towards greater harmonization and strengthened coordination and align itself strongly in support of the Paris declaration and Accra Agent for Action.

So in its spirit the UN has articulated a unified vision in its new United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2010/2014 which states that it “seeks to support the capacity of Uganda to achieve the national development plan, with focus on equity and inclusion, peace and recovery, population and sustainable development.

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