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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Commercial traders and products consumers in Mbarara City are questioning the issuing and usage of electronic receipts by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) demanding more sensitization on the campaign.<\/p>\n

The traders say URA\u2019s Electronic Receipt will only benefit the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis URA\u2019s electronic receipt electronic receipt issuing will not help traders or consumers but only the government because the system requires expertise meaning once a trader has been employing like two workers he or she will add the third one,\u201d said Mr Simon Mwijuka Sezi the Chairperson Mbarara City Traders Association (MBACITA)<\/p>\n

He added \u201cPaying taxes is good because it is what supports development of the country but traders will not benefit from this. Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) should first sensitize the masses both traders and consumers on how this electronic receipt works, after understanding it we shall see how to adapt to it,\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Emmanuel Muhumuza, the chairperson of traders in Mbarara Central market says the electronic receipt will ease tax valuations.<\/p>\n

\u201cURA people would come asking for revenue door to door and after days you hear them saying that we owe them yet we had paid earlier. As traders we will embrace that campaign because it is beneficial to both traders and consumers,\u201d Said Mr Muhumuza<\/p>\n

He added \u201cWe have to begin with mindset change. Much as it is a good programme, it will not be successful if it is not understood by people. Let them educate the targeted people,\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Richard Mugalula, the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Mbarara Station Head said the campaign is on among traders to encourage business owners and consumers to embrace the use of electronic receipts in their business to track their transactions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) we are running this campaign basically to see the visibility of receipts being issued by the various tax payers in Mbarara. It is an electronic receipt that can be issued off the system of URA. The emphasis is to encourage the public to demand e-receipts whenever they buy goods and services from traders,\u201d said Mr Mugalula<\/p>\n

Mr Mugalula said the electronic receipts issuing is majorly targeting taxpayers who mainly deal in goods and services that attract Value Added Tax (VAT)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment you register for VAT then it is a mandatory requirement that you issue an electronic receipts. That is why this campaign is called \u2018mpa e-receipt yange\u2019,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

He says the electronic receipt campaign will help grow Uganda\u2019s tax register.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently Uganda has a population of 45 million people. We have a tax register of close to 2 million people and we want to see it grow to 5m registered taxpayers. When these receipts are issued, we are able to track a number of frauds and to see a number of potential tax payers, able to see sales that one has made and in that way we shall be increasing the register and also growing our revenue,\u201d Mr Mugalula said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. Commercial traders and products consumers in Mbarara City are questioning the issuing and usage of electronic receipts by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) demanding more sensitization on the campaign. 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