The Commercial Court has temporality blocked Uganda Revenue Authority from taxing MPs allowances.<\/p>\n
Justice Christopher Madrama has ruled that the stay is to give chance to Parliamentary Commission to exercise\u00a0its right of appeal against the judgment of Justice Henry Peter Adonyo\u00a0delivered\u00a0on 29th<\/sup>,January,2016.<\/p>\n The judge also said the Court of Appeal should be given chance to review the Parliamentary Commission\u2019s grievances\u00a0before the High Court\u2019s decision is implemented.<\/p>\n Early this week the Commissions lawyer Citina Cherotich argued that if court did not stop URA from collecting this money, it would suffer serious loss and would not be able to cater for the welfare\u00a0of the MPs.<\/p>\n Cherotich submitted that if the MPs pay the taxes now and they win the appeal, URA may not refund their monies, fears which the tax body allayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Commercial Court has temporality blocked Uganda Revenue Authority from taxing MPs allowances. Justice Christopher Madrama has ruled that the stay is to give chance to Parliamentary Commission to exercise\u00a0its right of appeal against the judgment of Justice Henry Peter Adonyo\u00a0delivered\u00a0on 29th,January,2016. The judge also said the Court of Appeal should be given chance to review the Parliamentary Commission\u2019s grievances\u00a0before the High Court\u2019s decision is implemented. Early this week the Commissions lawyer Citina Cherotich argued that if court did not stop URA from collecting this money, it would suffer serious loss and would not be able to cater for the welfare\u00a0of the MPs. Cherotich submitted that if the MPs pay the taxes now and they win the appeal, URA may […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}