{"id":6333,"date":"2013-06-05T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2013-06-05T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:34:52","slug":"beer-industry-appeals-for-tax-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/beer-industry-appeals-for-tax-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer industry appeals for tax cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6334\" alt=\"Beer in a glass\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass-248x125.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass-133x67.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Beer-in-a-glass.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players in the beer industry are asking for tax cuts in the upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p>The beer industry is one of the top five contributors of taxes .<\/p>\n<p>Uganda Revenue Authority reported last month that the sector contributed Shs 21b in taxes, way ahead of other sectors including electricity, phone talk time and banking.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major players in the industry East African Breweries says though \u00a0government is under stress to collect more money, it is \u00a0not constructive to heap the burden on the leading sectors<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to KFM the Director of <em>East African Breweries <\/em>UGANDA <em>Richard <\/em>\u00a0Wejuli Wabwire said imposing high taxes will only serve to scare away potential investors in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players in the beer industry are asking for tax cuts in the upcoming budget. The beer industry is one of the top five contributors of taxes . Uganda Revenue Authority reported last month that the sector contributed Shs 21b in taxes, way ahead of other sectors including electricity, phone talk time and banking. One of the major players in the industry East African Breweries says though \u00a0government is under stress to collect more money, it is \u00a0not constructive to heap the burden on the leading sectors Speaking to KFM the Director of East African Breweries UGANDA Richard \u00a0Wejuli Wabwire said imposing high taxes will only serve to scare away potential investors in the sector. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6334,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}