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Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by TechZiga: 9:48pm On Apr 12, 2018
A new report from Uganda says the Government of the country will start taxing its citizens for using social medias. Speaking in an interview with Reuters, the country's finance minister Matia Kasaija, said the tax will see every mobile phone subscriber buying about USh200 which is around $0.027 per day for using social media. According to him, platforms that will be affected include, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook Skype, and Viber.

The government in the 2016 general election, blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. The country is among the Eastern Africa country imposing laws to regulate internet usage. Just last month, other Eastern Africa country, Tanzania introduced an annual licence fee of TSh1 million about $440 for any citizen operating a blog or website in the country. Whats your view on this, do you think the move is right?

Source: http://www.techchairman.com/2018/04/ugandans-to-pay-taxes-for-using-social.html

Re: Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by timwudz(m): 9:51pm On Apr 12, 2018
Radarada

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Re: Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by colossus91(m): 9:55pm On Apr 12, 2018
Africans malu!
Re: Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by femolacqua(m): 9:59pm On Apr 12, 2018
As in what's that?

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Re: Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by pode(m): 12:38am On Apr 13, 2018
With free data?
Re: Ugandans To Pay Taxes For Using Social Media Starting From July by TechZiga: 1:49am On Apr 13, 2018
No, the government says that the purpose of the tax, is to raise revenue for the country
pode:
With free data?

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