Uproar Every Bit Uganda Telecom Companies Implement Mobile Money, Social Media Taxes

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From the Daily Monitor (Kampala), July 1:

“When I woke up, I was surprised that I had non received whatsoever messages on my Whatsapp or messenger. I could non login to my Twitter draw concern human relationship either. This was foreign given the fact that I had merely bought ten GB of information 2 days ago. I was nearly to telephone phone my telecom service provider as well as therefore I remembered it is July 1, 2018, the twenty-four hr menstruum when regime said it would implement social media revenue enhancement on orders of our President,” i Dan Mugeni wrote on his Facebook wall.

Active social media users inwards Uganda

Mugeni is i of the 2.6 i one m thousand active mobile Social Media users inwards Republic of Uganda who are bashing regime over what they bring described equally ridiculous tax. He says he was solely able to write the post service later on paying the Shs200 through mobile money.

Like Mugeni, several Mobile Money as well as Social Media users inwards Republic of Uganda are currently desperate later on telecomm companies implemented taxes on mobile coin as well as social media equally mandated past times the government.

The implementation was made effective at midnight, July 1, 2018.

The novel social media revenue enhancement affects social media platforms such equally Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, Viber, as well as Skype amid others.

In the Budget for the fiscal yr 2018/2019, the regime of Republic of Uganda announced that it would accuse those using over the superlative services or sites that offering phonation as well as messaging over the internet, Shs200 daily.

In his alphabetic quality directing the Republic of Uganda Revenue Authority as well as Ministry of Finance to revenue enhancement social media, President Museveni argued that most Ugandans using social are rumour mongers. He, however, promised to exempt those using it for educational purposes. But critics query how he volition attain upward one's hear those using it for educational purposes.

The regime besides mandated the telecom companies to accuse 1% revenue enhancement of the transaction value of the services on the mobile money.

How to pay the social media tax

Payment for social media, according to a articulation tilt from 3 of the leading telecom companies inwards Uganda, MTN, Airtel as well as Africell, tin hold upward made via mobile money. This tin hold upward done past times dialling *185*2*5# for Airtel, as well as *165*2*5# for MTN. The revenue enhancement is Shs200 as well as tin hold upward paid daily, weekly (1400), or monthly (6000)....MUCH MORE