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{{Short description|Revenue collection agency in Uganda}}
{{for|the Kampala soccer team|Uganda Revenue Authority SC}}
{{Infobox government agency
|agency_name = '''Uganda Revenue Authority'''
|nativename =
|logo =
|logo_width = 160px
|logo_caption =
|seal =
|seal_width = 140px
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|formed = {{start date and age|1991}}
|jurisdiction = [[Government of Uganda]]
|headquarters = [[URA House]], [[Nakawa]], [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]]
|employees = 2,900+ (2015)<ref>{{cite web | access-date=9 June 2015 | url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/669491-ura-boss-doris-akol-promotes-transparency.html | title=URA Boss Doris Akol Promotes Transparency | date=8 June 2015 | newspaper=[[New Vision]] |location=Kampala |author=Michael Kanaabi}}</ref>
|budget =
|chief1_name =Chairman
|chief1_position = <br/>[[Juma Kisaame]]<ref name="1R">{{cite web|url=https://www.softpower.ug/former-dfcu-bank-md-juma-kisaame-is-new-chair-of-uras-board/ |title=Former DFCU Bank MD, Juma Kisaame Is New Chair Of URA's Board |publisher=SoftPower Uganda |date=23 March 2020 |access-date=8 April 2020 |author=Paul Ampurire | location=Kampala}}</ref>
|chief2_name = [[Director-general|Commissioner general]]
|chief2_position =<br/>[[John Musinguzi Rujoki]]
|parent_agency = [[Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)|Uganda Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development]]
|website = {{URL|www.ura.go.ug/}}
|footnotes =
}}
[[File:Commissioner General Doris Akol.jpg|alt=Commissioner General Doris Akol.|thumb|Commissioner General Doris Akol, She replaced Allen Kagina, who retired after two consecutive five-year terms at the helm of URA. Akpol joined URA, as a Legal Officer in 1995|201x201px]]
The '''Uganda Revenue Authority''' ('''URA''') is a government revenue collection agency established by the [[Parliament of Uganda]]. Operating under the [[Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)|Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development]], the URA is responsible for enforcing, assessing, collecting, and accounting for the various taxes imposed in [[Uganda]].<ref>{{cite web |access-date=15 October 2016 | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/Prosper/Uganda-revenue-collection-supressed-by-narrow-tax-base/688616-3235162-20m481z/index.html |title=Uganda revenue collection {{as written|sup|ressed [sic]}} by narrow tax base | date=7 June 2016 | newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | location=Kampala | author= Ismail Musa Ladu}}</ref>

==Location==
URA's headquarters is located in a 22-storey skyscraper, known as [[URA House|Uganda Revenue Authority House]] (URA Tower), located at Plot M 193/4 Kinnawataka Road, Nakawa Industrial Area, in the [[Nakawa Division]] of [[Kampala]], Uganda's capital and largest city.<ref name="LocR">{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/0%C2%B019'48.0%22N+32%C2%B037'10.0%22E/@0.33,32.6187086,144m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d0.33!4d32.6194444 |title=Location of Headquarters of Uganda Revenue Authority |access-date=6 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.softpower.ug/ura-headquarters-to-move-into-new-building-in-january/ |title=URA Headquarters To Move Into New Building In January |date=5 December 2018 |
publisher=SoftPower Uganda |author=Pat Robert Larubi | location=Kampala}}</ref> The site is about {{convert|6.5|km|0}}, by road, east of the city center.<ref>{{google maps|
url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Central+Bank+of+Uganda,+Kampala+Road,+Kampala/The+URA+Tower,+Unnamed+Road,+Kampala/@0.3151365,32.5874663,14.5z/data=!4m24!4m23!1m15!1m1!1s0x177dbc80f7f01c39:0x6b9adae1ecae2406!2m2!1d32.5803804!2d0.3142589!3m4!1m2!1d32.5815192!2d0.3131987!3s0x177dbc809164fecd:0xd0865e842e371c36!3m4!1m2!1d32.5904183!2d0.3158223!3s0x177dbc789ce33fa5:0xed9d6929402b70cf!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbbf08bdf7c85:0x924ad162bcd0ba55!2m2!1d32.6192365!2d0.3303838!3e0 |title=Road Distance Between Central Bank of Uganda, Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda and Uganda Revenue Authority Tower. Nakawa, Kampala, Uganda |access-date=12 August 2021}}</ref> The coordinates of the agency's headquarters are 0°19'48.0"N 32°37'10.0"E (Latitude:0.330000; Longitude:32.619444).<ref name="LocR"/>

==History==

[[Allen Kagina]] was charged with eliminating corruption in the URA when she was appointed Commissioner General in 2004. [[Minister of Information]] [[Rose Namayanja]] said, "Under the leadership of Ms Allen Kagina, we have successfully cleaned URA and tax collections on a year-to-year basis have gone up. The situation is not as bad as it used to be." According to the ''[[Daily Monitor]]'', this view was shared by the [[president of Uganda]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Mugerwa | first=Yasiin | title=AG unearths graft at URA | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Auditor-General-uncovers-corruption-at-URA/-/688334/2272828/-/item/0/-/hccr92/-/index.html | newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | date=10 April 2014 | access-date=9 June 2015|
location=Kampala}}</ref>

==Overview==
In 1991, when URA was established, tax collection was 6.83% of [[GDP]], amounting to UGX:133 billion. In 2015, taxes collected were 13% of GDP, amounting to UGX:11.2 trillion. URA targets to increase tax collection to at least 16% of GDP by 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/URA-increase-revenue-Shs34-trillion/688322-3407592-bw051d/index.html |title=URA Tasked To Increase Revenue To Shs34 Trillion |newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] |author=Jonathan Adengo |date=7 October 2016 |access-date=15 October 2016 |location=Kampala}}</ref>

==Administration==
On 29 March 2020, the President of the Republic of Uganda H.E. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed John Musinguzi Rujoki as Commissioner General. He replaced lawyer [[Doris Akol]] who was appointed on 27 October 2014 by then Ugandan Finance Minister [[Maria Kiwanuka]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Doris-Akol-appointed--Kagina-s-replacement-at-URA/-/688334/2500850/-/ktxvg7z/-/index.html | title=Doris Akol Appointed Kagina's Replacement At URA|date=27 October 2014 | access-date=7 February 2015 | first=Reporter | last=Monitor | newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] (Kampala)}}</ref> Allen Kagina who served at the helm of the URA for two consecutive five-year terms prior to Doris Akol before retiring.<ref>{{cite web | title=URA Boss Kagina Leaves Office This October | newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] (Kampala)| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/URA-boss-Kagina-leaves-office-this-October/-/688334/2395052/-/bij6ir/-/index.html | date=24 July 2014 | access-date=7 February 2015 | last=Yasiin Mugerwa | first=and Ismail Musa Ladu}}</ref> To accommodate the majority of its staff in one location, URA built a 22-storey tower adjacent to its headquarters at Nakawa, completed in 2018,<ref>{{cite web |title=High-end office space in high demand in Uganda |url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/business/High-end-office-space-in-high-demand-in-Uganda-/2560-3393662-sfck18/index.html| newspaper=[[The EastAfrican]] |date=24 September 2016 |access-date=24 September 2016 |author=Bernard Busuulwa |location=Nairobi}}</ref> and officially commissioned in January 2019.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Softpower Uganda | url=https://www.softpower.ug/museveni-commissions-shs-139bn-ura-tower-talks-tough-on-bureaucracy/ |title=Museveni Commissions Shs139 Billion URA Tower, Talks Tough On Bureaucracy | date=20 January 2019 |access-date=3 June 2020 |author=Paul Ampurire |location=Kampala}}</ref>

==Commissioner Generals==
The table below illustrates the Commissioner Generals of the authority since its inception in 1991.<ref name="12R">{{cite web|url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/The-story-of-URA-and-why-Doris-Akol-had-to-be-sacked/689364-5515004-4wqpvuz/index.html |title=The story of URA and why Doris Akol had to be sacked |newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] |date=5 April 2020 | access-date=5 April 2020 |location=Kampala}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 0.5em auto"
|+ Commissioner Generals Uganda Revenue Authority Since Inception
! Rank !! Commissioner General !! From !! Until !! Notes
|-
| 1 || Edward Larbi Siaw || 1991 || 1997 ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 2 || Elly Rwakakooko || 1997 || 2000 ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 3 || Stephen Besweri Akabway || 2000 || 2001 ||In Acting capacity<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 4 || Annebritt Aslund || 2001 || 2004 ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 5 || [[Allen Kagina]] || 2004 || 2014 ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 6 || [[Doris Akol]] || 2014 || 2020 ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
| 7 || [[John Musinguzi Rujoki]] || 2020 || present ||<ref name="12R"/>
|-
|}

==Board of directors==
The government agency is supervised by a seven-person board of directors, who are appointed by the Ugandan minister of finance.<ref name="14R">{{cite web|newspaper=[[Daily Monitor]] | url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Government--URA--board-members--Kasaija-Finance/688334-3517272-myksv3z/index.html |title=Government Doubles Pay for URA Board Members |date=15 January 2017 |author=Frederic Musisi |access-date=3 June 2020 | location=Kampala}}</ref> As of June 2020, the table below illustrates the composition of the URA Board of Directors.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 0.5em auto"
|+ Members of the Board of Directors of Uganda Revenue Authority
! Rank !! Namel !! Role !! Other Roles !! Notes
|-
| 1 || [[Juma Kisaame]] || [[Chairman]] ||Former CEO of [[DFCU Bank]] ||<ref name="1R"/>
|-
| 2 || [[John Musinguzi Rujoki]] || [[Commissioner-general]] || ||<ref name="15R">{{cite web|url=https://www.softpower.ug/new-era-at-ura-as-musinguzi-rujoki-assumes-office-as-6th-commissioner-general/ |title=New Era At URA As Musinguzi Rujoki Assumes Office As 6th Commissioner General |publisher=SoftPower Uganda |date=2 April 2020 |author=SoftPower Uganda |access-date=3 June 2020 |location=Kampala}}</ref>
|-
| 3 || [[Patience Tumusiime Rubagumya]] || Board Secretary || URA Commissioner for Legal and Board Affairs ||<ref name="16R">{{cite web| url=https://www.ugandanewsreleases.com/%EF%BB%BFms-rubagumya-has-worked-for-the-authority-for-14-years/ |title=Ms Rubagumya has worked for the Authority for 14 years | publisher=Ugandanewsreleases.com Quoting [[Daily Monitor]] |
date=4 February 2015 |access-date=3 June 2020 |author=Daily Monitor |location=Kampala}}</ref>
|-
| 4 || Ramatham Ggobi ||Secretary to Treasury || Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Finance ||<ref name="14R"/>
|-
| 5 || Helen Awidi || Member || ||<ref name="14R"/>
|-
| 6 || Loy Tumusiime || Member || ||<ref name="17R">{{cite web| url=https://www.ura.go.ug/Resources/webuploads/GNRART/Annual%20Report%20FY%2015-16.pdf |title=Board Members for Financial Year 2016/2017 |publisher=Uganda Revenue Authority |date=2016 | access-date=3 June 2020 |author=Uganda Revenue Authority | location=Kampala}}</ref>
|-
| 7 || Michael Wamibu || Member || ||<ref name="14R"/>
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[URA House]]
*[[Economy of Uganda]]
*[[Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Uganda)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{official website|http://www.ura.go.ug/}}
*[https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Shs195-billion-paint-deal-URA-Nakalema-Kateshumbwa/688334-5568814-c37rlo/index.html Shs195 billion paint deal led to URA shake-up]

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[[Category:Government agencies of Uganda]]
[[Category:Economy of Uganda]]
[[Category:Revenue services]]
[[Category:Government agencies established in 1991]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Kampala]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in Uganda]]
[[Category:Taxation in Uganda]]

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