In Uganda, tax collection is a circus. People cheat-fake books, hide sales, declare peanuts to URA.Foreigners get tax holidays like VIPs while locals pay through the nose. We could pull in billions more if everyone just played fair. But even the tiny bit we do collect? It disappears. Most goes straight into allowances, salaries, benefits-MPs driving new SUVs, ministers flying first class, civil servants on endless facilitation trips. We squeeze citizens dry then feed the elite. Time to stop pretending. Tax right. Cut the fat. Or we'll keep begging donors forever.