Manufacturers urge government to cut down costs of Digital Tax Stamps to increase usage and revenue yield

Manufacturing sector players have asked the government to reduce the cost of digital tax stamps (DTS) in a bid to drive usage by all targeted users. According to manufacturers, the high costs of digital tax stamps continue to be a barrier for some manufacturers.  Uganda Breweries Managing Director Andrew Kilonzo, during a media day engagement with business reporters and editors, said that the government’s earlier promise was that once all manufacturers embraced digital tax stamps, the cost of the stamps would reduce, but that has not been achieved.  “The promise of the system was that all manufacturers would get into…