{"id":12628,"date":"2018-07-03T14:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ug\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:33:50","slug":"the-tax-is-affordable-finance-minister-david-bahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ug\/the-tax-is-affordable-finance-minister-david-bahati\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Tax is affordable&#8221;  Finance minister David Bahati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"st\">Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Planning), Hon. David Bahati has stated defended the newly-introduced OTT tax and excise duty tax slapped on mobile money transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While addressing the media today at Uganda Media Centre, he stated that the tax is affordable and should be embraced by Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen we (government) propose a tax it must be affordable and reasonable. We don\u2019t think approx. Shs70,000 a year for social media is unreasonable. A tax is a small but affordable contribution, not a punishment. We should finance our budget fully.\u00a0 We will account for the resources we get from tax collection\u201d<\/em>, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the use of VPN to evade paying tax will be countered.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have contacted UCC so that usage of VPNs to access social media is stopped. The other good opportunity we have is that it\u2019s more expensive using VPNs than simply paying the social media tax of Shs200\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bahati explained that the government needs to raise money to provide services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State for Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Planning), Hon. 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