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I recently conducted interviews with two prominent social media influencers, Kasuku Live and Patrick Kanyomoozi, who have established significant online presence in the entertainment industry and social advocacy, respectively.
They shared insightful perspectives on social media's transformative impact. Kasuku Live highlighted social media's financial potential, noting how his online platform has enabled him to achieve numerous financial objectives.
Conversely, Patrick Kanyomoozi emphasized social media's capacity to drive societal change, influencing governments and policymakers to reassess their policies.
To listen to the entire conversation headover to my YouTube channel - https://t.co/envICggFkc
@Bagandatweepsss The biggest percentage of Ugandans lack civic education and that is reflected by the kind of leaders they send to parliament.
And that is where politicians like them
THE FOUNTAIN OF POVERTY
(Part One — Coffee)
I believe we’ve always underestimated Museveni’s determination to keep Ugandans needy and dependent on handouts. The fact that the peasant population has remained at around 70% is purely by design. If he keeps them poor they’ll keep him in power.
And so nothing scares the president more than wealth that trickles down to the rural population. That gives him sleepless nights.
Therefore, the timing of his desire to erase UCDA is not accidental. The stars have aligned for coffee farmers as prices nearly doubled to $4.23 a kilo. Last year Uganda earned $1.14bn from coffee, the highest in over 30 years (almost $300m more than previous year).
That money is trickling down to rural farmers and has caused a noticeable boost in their livelihoods —- and nothing triggers panic in Museveni’s mind more than that, especially with an election coming up.
And yet coffee prices are projected to continue rising. A few more seasons of this boom and villagers will be voting from a position of strength rather than despair. When that happens —- if it happens — then Museveni will have lost his stranglehold over them.
If he succeeds in merging UCDA with the ministry of agriculture, he will create another layer of middlemen who will carry all the profits and the farmers will go back to their destitution…and continue voting NRM.
And the president will go on another “wealth creation” tour where he will tell barefooted villagers to take advantage of the opportunities in the ICT sector.
Politics!!
@MosesMagogo Apart from rescheduling time and tickets prices, I think Club should look for ways they draw closer to the public so that they form an attachment with communities where they come from .
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Hello @LindaEvelyn_N , please don’t give up on business based on some falsehoods. Kindly permit us to share some realities here.
1. Local businesses do have tax incentives in place and the criteria to attain these tax incentives is actually much more favorable for locals vis-à-vis foreign investors. Here are a few examples ;-
- A tax holiday of ten years is available to exporters who export at least 80% of their produce of finished goods, subject to certain conditions.
- Plant and machinery is exempt from customs duty on importation. Additionally, a VAT deferral facility is available where VAT is deferred on importation of plant and machinery and subsequently waived upon approval by the relevant authorities
- A deduction of 2% of income tax payable is granted to any employer who can prove to the URA that at least 5% of their employees on a full-time basis are people with disabilities.
- There is a ten-year income tax exemption for developers and operators in an industrial park or free zone. The exemption applies to income derived by a person from letting or leasing facilities whose minimum capital investment is USD 50 million for foreigners or USD 10 million in the case of a citizen.
- The income of an operator in an industrial park or free zone or the income of any other person carrying on business outside the industrial park or free zone whose investment capital over a period of ten years is at least USD 10 million in the case of a foreigner or USD 300,000 in the case of a citizen, or USD 150,000 in the case of a citizen whose investment is placed up country.
There are many more tax incentives here https://t.co/MNX2BIJyJU
2. EFRIS, the tax system that was introduced is not here to frustrate compliant traders. It is rather here to expose non compliance to Value Added Tax. A trader who has been doing the right thing with VAT isn’t complaining about EFRIS. On the contrary, they are happy that now even other businesses that have been abusing VAT are now detectable.
This is why we have been advocating for people to demand their e-receipts whenever they make any purchases from a VAT registered business.
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@peaceBagala@DavidLumansi If Kloop can trust Nunez and Dalgrish trusted Andy Carol how about Jackson with 8 goals in half a season in his first season.