{"id":38148,"date":"2018-11-01T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=38148"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:29:48","slug":"finance-minister-kasaija-defends-governments-decision-to-tax-mobile-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/finance-minister-kasaija-defends-governments-decision-to-tax-mobile-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Kasaija defends government\u2019s decision to tax mobile money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv1788958633msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">By Benjamin Jumbe.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1788958633msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: windowtext;\">Minister for Finance<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">, Planning and Economic development Matia Kasaija\u00a0dismisses claims by financial experts that the<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> taxes on mobile money transactions are negatively impacting financial inclusion.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1788958633msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Speaking during the financial inclusion week symposium, Kasaija says Mobile Money is still the\u00a0most\u00a0secure\u00a0and\u00a0convenient mobile\u00a0payment platform that people that cannot do way without.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv1788958633msonormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">He defends government\u2019s decision to tax mobile money users saying that Mobile money\u00a0has revolutionized the way financial services are provided across the globe hence the need to tap into sector with at least 0.5% levy on each withdraw transaction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe. The Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic development Matia Kasaija\u00a0dismisses claims by financial experts that the taxes on mobile money transactions are negatively impacting financial inclusion. Speaking during the financial inclusion week symposium, Kasaija says Mobile Money is still the\u00a0most\u00a0secure\u00a0and\u00a0convenient mobile\u00a0payment platform that people that cannot do way without. He defends government\u2019s decision to tax mobile money users saying that Mobile money\u00a0has revolutionized the way financial services are provided across the globe hence the need to tap into sector with at least 0.5% levy on each withdraw transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":38151,"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-38148","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\/38148"}],"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=38148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}