New Digital Taxes Regressive, to Hurt Internet-driven Businesses, Slow Connectivity

By Nathan Were The Parliament of Uganda recently passed the Excise Duty Amendment Bill, 2021 in which new taxes were introduced. One of such taxes is on the internet requiring users to pay a 12 percent levy on internet bundles. The internet tax levy replaces the UGX200 daily over-the-top tax that many people had started evading through virtual private networks. At a time when businesses are str