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Gary Kizito
Manager Business Analysis
As part of the concept development team, Gary Kizito led a bench marking team which did several studies across East Africa and beyond in order to get much needed lessons and develop a system that was meant to address several tax administrations challenges.
He says the EFRIS concept was designed to help taxpayers improve their record keeping, by making sure they don’t pay unfair tax that is being assessed because of absence of records.
Gary Kizito is Manager Business Analysis at Uganda Revenue Authority. Kizito has served in different capacities for about 12 years at the authority. He started off as Tax Auditor in charge of Tax Audit and Compliance Management from 2007 to 2010.
He then served as Manager Business Analysis, a position he held from 2012 to 2017.
He went on to become Manager Medium Taxpayers Office from 2017 to 2018, then Manager Business Analysis, a position he has held from 2019.
Gary Kizito is also a Tax Consultant (Facilitator) at the East Africa School of Taxation.
Garry holds a BBA and MBA from Makerere University. He has a LEAD PROGRAM on Ethical Leadership and Values-based Multinational Management; A case for Africa’s economic development and sustainability through a globalization strategy from the University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business
#2
Ajuna Newton Brian
Manager Applications Support
Ajuna Newton Brian is currently the Manager Applications Support at Uganda Revenue Authority, and he was part of the team that made sure EFRIS comes to life.
As the ICT Team Lead, Brian’s role on EFRIS was working together with the rest of the project team to prepare the requirements documents, Validation and quality assurance of the proposed system design, Together with the solution vendor, we carried out the readiness assessment of URA’s IT infrastructure, Assessment of system/technology implications of change requests during the lifetime of the project, Coordination of technical teams in provision of the day today support and maintenance to EFRIS this includes, application monitoring, patch management, incident management and end user support, Manage the deployment of software upgrades, enhancements and fixes based on release schedules, My team is also responsible for managing the integration points between EFRIS and other existing URA systems like Asycuda world and eTax and Provision of technical guidance to the project team in all ICT related matters
He is a reliable data processing, data ware housing and system integration expert with over 11 years’ experience in systems integration, data ware housing, database design and development across a range of environments.
Brian has been with URA for over 8years where he started as a Soft Engineer/Developer and moved to Ag. Project Manager – Data Warehouse Project, ICT Team Lead – Data Warehouse Project, Supervisor Software Engineering, ICT Lead DRMP (Including project; Digital Tax Stamp, Etax2, EFRIS and EFDs) and now the Manager Applications Support.
Before URA, he worked as a Data Manager/M&E Officer at Integrated Community Based Initiatives (ICOBI) for 1year and 7months, Database programmer at Medical Research Council for 2years and 5months and as the Senior Information Systems Consultant at WINGERsoft Technologies Limited for 14years and 4months.
Brian holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology and Computing from Kyambogo University and a Master’s degree in information systems from Makerere University.
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Myra Miria Iris Ochwo
Manager, Planning; Domestic Taxes department
Myra Miria Iris Ochwo is currently serving as Manager Planning in the Domestic Taxes department at Uganda Revenue Authority, and she is part of the team that brought EFRIS to life. She is responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, human capital management and change management.
As Manager Planning for the department, she headed the change team that manages the change for the EFRIS project. The team is responsible for stakeholder management, training and communication of the project. they ensure both internal and external clients are kept abreast with developments of the system and they ultimately adopt the solution.
Her career in URA dates back to 1999 when she joined as an Assistant Revenue Officer having completed the mandatory Post graduate diploma in tax and revenue administration.
In 2003, she was assigned to a team of 6 that was tasked to re-engineer the business processes of the Domestic Taxes Department with an aim of having them automated. This team was eventually folded into the URA Modernisation Office which comprised of ten managers who were tasked to run the then modernisation project which birthed many initiatives in the organisation. One of these initiatives was the Domestic Taxes Modernisation Project (DTMP) which implemented the eTAX solution. As a core member of this team, she was the task leader for the change management work group. Broadly she was responsible for developing and implementing a change and communication management framework for the project. Steered the change management and communication for the project ensuring there was a change in behavior and mind sets.
Myra was also a member of the Modern office concept project that Developed an organization standard working environment concept that led to improved working environments. In 2011, she was the change Lead for the second modernization programme dubbed managing compliance program. Supported the EAC Authorized Economic Operators project with developing a change management plan.
Myra believes Change is a fact of life therefore as a certified change management practitioner, she is passionate about innovating ways which make it easier for people to navigate through the change curve. She lives to inspire others and leave them better off than when she found them.
#4
Hafsah Seguya Nabachwa
Ag. Supervisor Taxpayer Literacy; Domestic Taxes
Hafsah Seguya Nabachwa is the Ag. Supervisor Taxpayer Literacy in the Domestic taxes of Uganda Revenue Authority and she is part of the team that functioned the existence of EFRIS.
Hafsah is a seasoned tax educationalist with experience in the different Tax laws over a period exceeding 26 years. She has an exposure in taxpayer literacy with a bias in the informal sector.
She has been known to simplifying tax issues to the public in the different client forums Working hand in hand with other MDAs in dissecting the policy amendments on annual basis for the informal sector on the different media houses.
Her role in EFRIS implementation was sensitizing both internal and external stakeholders in the usage, adaptability and its importance. As an EFRIS champion, she is still continuously sensitizing the public on several domestic taxes initiatives that also include EFRIS.
Hafsah holds a Master of Science in Accounting and Finance and a Bcom Finance from Makerere University as well as Certificates 1&2 in Integrated Tax Administration.
