{"id":36212,"date":"2018-07-18T07:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=36212"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:46:11","slug":"shs-7-billion-collected-from-controversial-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/shs-7-billion-collected-from-controversial-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shs 7 billion collected from controversial taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ritah Kemigisa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Government has revealed that it has so far collected shs 7 billion from the controversial taxes on mobile money transactions and social media.<\/p>\n<p>The amount has been collected in less than a two weeks ever since the taxes were effected on 1<sup>st<\/sup> July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the finance minister for planning David Bahati, the 1% on mobile money transactions has seen shs 5 billion collected while shs 2 billion has been collected from the shs 200 daily paid by users to access social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the president\u2019s directive to refund all those who paid the 1% percent mobile money tax, Bahati says the attorney general is reviewing the possibility of only refunding the charge on deposits.<\/p>\n<p>Government is expecting to collect shs 284 billion from the over 10 M over the tax users on social media and shs 118 billion from the new 0.5% withdraw charge on mobile money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ritah Kemigisa. Government has revealed that it has so far collected shs 7 billion from the controversial taxes on mobile money transactions and social media. The amount has been collected in less than a two weeks ever since the taxes were effected on 1st July 2018. According to the finance minister for planning David Bahati, the 1% on mobile money transactions has seen shs 5 billion collected while shs 2 billion has been collected from the shs 200 daily paid by users to access social media platforms. Concerning the president\u2019s directive to refund all those who paid the 1% percent mobile money tax, Bahati says the attorney general is reviewing the possibility of only refunding the charge on deposits. [&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-36212","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\/36212"}],"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=36212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36212\/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=36212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}