According to an online report from allafrica.com:ThE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is demanding sh1.3b in corporation tax arrears from Uganda Christian University (UCU), a move that has drawn an outcry from other private universities that see themselves as the next
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Uganda’s New Services Tax Proposal
In light of the situation in Florida (possibly reducing school property taxes in exchange increased sales tax on services, increased sales tax rates and reduced sales tax exemptions), I found this editorial about a new services tax proposal in…
Uganda Assisting with Kenyan Refugees
The Uganda government and humanitarian agencies in the country say their resources are being stretched by the continued influx of Kenyans fleeing the violence in their country to the displaced persons camps set up in Uganda’s border districts.By last week,…
Local Governments in Africa are Imposing Taxes on Marriages In Order to Widen the Tax Base
On January 18, 2008, Africa News reported that a local government in Uganda plans to impose a new tax on marriages in order to "widen the tax base and fill the gap created by suspension of graduated tax." The tax,…
Uganda: Woman Jailed Over Abortion
Via allAfrica.com:A woman has been sentenced to a year in prisonafter the magistrate’s court in Rukungiri found her guilty of helping agirl carry out an abortion.Appearing beforethe chief magistrate, Deborah Wanume, on Friday, DanavenceTwinomugisha, 35, of Kihanga trading centre…
Uganda: Abortion Complicates Ratification of Protocol On Women’s Rights
Kakaire A. Kirunda reports for the Monitor (Kampala):October 31, 2007The government is under renewed pressure to embrace the protocol to the African charter on human and peoples’ rights on the rights of women in Africa, also known as the Maputo…
Rwandan Refugees Return Home
From the All Africa Reporter:Three thousand Rwandan refugees started to return from Uganda on Thursday, with half of them arriving on the first day. Another 1,500 were expected yesterday, with up to 242 reported to have arrived in morning hours.…
NY Times: Washing After Sex May Raise H.I.V. Risk
Via yesterday’s New York Times:A study in Uganda has come up with a surprising finding about sex and H.I.V. Washing the penis minutes after sex increased the risk of acquiring H.I.V. in uncircumcised men.The sooner the washing, the greater…
Joireman on New Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
By propertyprof
Sandra Fullerton Joireman (Wheaton College) has posted Enforcing New Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Ugandan Constitution and the 1998 Land Act on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:Many Sub-Saharan African countries are embarking on major changes in their property rights law…
Ugandan Lesbian Seeks U.S. Asylum
The Associated Press (here) reports on a novel asylum claim by a Ugandan woman who claims that her family in Uganda was so angry and ashamed to learn she was a lesbian that her relatives hurled insults at…