{"id":36143,"date":"2018-07-12T12:17:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36143"},"modified":"2018-07-12T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:27:22","slug":"3-tele-communication-companies-sued-over-mobile-money-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/3-tele-communication-companies-sued-over-mobile-money-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"3 tele-communication companies sued over Mobile money taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Uganda Revenue Authority and 3 Tele-communication companies have been taken to the High court for orders that they immediately refund the one % tax that they illegally collect from Mobile money depositors since July 1st\/2018.<\/p>\n<p>The 2 concerned citizens; John Robert Tukyakira and Anthony Odur are accusing the both the tele-companies and URA of illegally and erroneously collecting this tax.<\/p>\n<p>The two petitioners claim the collection of this tax is an infringement of the citizen&#8217;s fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>They also claim the tele-communication companies cannot ably account for the illegally collected money from depositors on behalf of URA.<\/p>\n<p>They now ask court to issue a permanent injunction restraining URA and the 3 tele-communication companies; Airtel, MTN and Africel from collecting taxes from Mobile money depositors.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related Stories&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/news\/minister-kasaija-expected-to-apologize-for-misleading-legislators-on-the-controversial-mobile-money-tax.html\">Minister Kasaija expected to apologize for misleading legislators on the controversial mobile money tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah. The Uganda Revenue Authority and 3 Tele-communication companies have been taken to the High court for orders that they immediately refund the one % tax that they illegally collect from Mobile money depositors since July 1st\/2018. The 2 concerned citizens; John Robert Tukyakira and Anthony Odur are accusing the both the tele-companies and URA of illegally and erroneously collecting this tax. The two petitioners claim the collection of this tax is an infringement of the citizen&#8217;s fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution. They also claim the tele-communication companies cannot ably account for the illegally collected money from depositors on behalf of URA. They now ask court to issue a permanent injunction restraining URA and the 3 tele-communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":36145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36143"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}