UGANDA REVENUE AUTHORITY (URA) is a winner of the 2015 Uganda Sustainable Development Award and accredited Uganda’s Top50 Sustainable Development Agencies in recognition and appreciation of its enormous contribution towards social-economic development of Uganda and attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Uganda. Awarded and Accredited by Public Opinions International
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) was established by the Uganda Revenue Authority Statute of 1991 and set up in September of the same year as a central body for assessment and collection of specified revenue, to administer and enforce the laws relating to such revenue and to provide for related matters. This statute incorporated all the laws that were in force then regarding tax collection. The new organization (URA) amalgamated the three tax administration departments that were responsible for all the taxes collected by the Central Government of Uganda.
These Departments were Customs & Excise, Inland Revenue and Income tax Department.
The URA was created as a quasi-autonomous unit with a Board of Directors appointed by and responsible to the Minister of Finance. The URA Statute grants a considerable degree of independence to the Board in terms of control over day to day operations.
However the Ministry of Finance (MOFPED) maintains control over two important areas:
- Budget: For Budgetary purposes, URA is regarded as a department of the MOFPED and is subject to the same financial rules and disciplines of its other departments.
- Revenue: The Ministry sets the Revenue targets and how such targets are to be spread over different tax heads.
Among the objectives, URA was to improve the standard of tax administration and correct the weaknesses that characterized the old tax administration.
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