Safeboda is Uganda is very own king of the motorbikes. For the past few years, the brand has made a name for its very own professional motorbike drivers noding a stop signal on every traffic light. Nicknamed as the Uber for Motorbikes, you can barely miss views of a Safeboda bike for every 5 minutes in kampala and the service is now live in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for the past few weeks expected some huge chunks of money from telecommunication companies over Government's new 1% on mobile money tax following strong opposition from the payers.
During the orange full times before the Africell take over. Buganda Kingdom had a strong partnerhsip with the then 079 network hosting its services and availing an indeoendnt telecom company. After a long battle with debts together with ups and lows experienced by K2 Telecom. Airtel Uganda has partnerd with Buganda to revive its Telecommunictions company with a switch of codes from 0730 to 0708.
South African based Telecom company MTN has pushed another step to the much hated OTT tax in Uganda by bocking all Opera affiliated browsers. A few weeks after URA mounted pressure on Telcoms to fulfill the budget mandate of soliciting social media tax. VPNs could soon be no more as a majority are blocked in Uganda.
After a successful 2018/19 budget reading that saw social media and mobile money taxes usher their way into Uganda. The Government has introduced a new policy to tax airtime purchases as all scratch cards now posses a 10% tax increment. Telecom companies in policy notices sent out to vendors clarified the 10% increase as a new tax introduced on July 1st 2018 joining the rugs of social media tax that is now bypassed with various VPNs downloaded
Social media taxes in Uganda are one of a kind and very unavoidable according to a statement by MTN in its FAQs. As Parliament previously approved the said social media taxes, Telecom companies have today backed the idea by releasing the official payment methods to be used when paying social media tax.
