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Birungyi, Barata & Associates elevates four lawyers to partner status

CEO ReporterLegal & Justice The Big StoryNovember 26, 2022November 26, 2022

Tax law firm, Birungyi, Barata & Associates (BBA) has announced that it has elevated four of its Associate Partners, to Partner level. The four are Dorothy Bishagenda, Martin Mbanza Kalemera, Belinda Lutaya Nakiganda and Patrick Kabagambe. In between them, the four new partners possess over 50 years of combined corporate and commercial law knowledge and practice covering key practice areas such as taxation, litigation, dispute resolution, debt collection, conveyancing, intellectual property, insolvency, banking, arbitration, construction, environmental law, as well as oil and gas, among others. “All of our new partners have enhanced the growth and reputation of the firm in…

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Top 10 tax highlights of 2021, that according to tax guru, Birungyi Cephas Kagyenda of Birungyi, Barata & Associates will shape 2022 and beyond

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial Services The Big StoryJanuary 3, 2022January 3, 2022

Birungyi Cephas Kagyenda of Birungyi, Barata & Associates (BBA) is probably Uganda’s foremost tax professional with rich legal knowledge spanning 36 years in Taxation, Commercial and Corporate Law, Energy and Construction; Dispute Resolution, Insolvency and Employment as well as Advisory and Consultancy. He has worked for the Ministry of Finance from 1984 and later Uganda Revenue Authority where he retired as a Deputy Commissioner in 2004 after cofounding BBA in 2003. He is now the Managing Partner at the firm. BBA itself is one of the leading tax law firms in Uganda that handles up to 35% of all tax…

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Big win for taxpayers as Constitutional Court restricts requirement to pay 30% of tax under dispute before challenging URA in court

Muhereza KyamuteteraBanking & Financial Services Company NewsJuly 25, 2020July 27, 2020

The Constitutional Court has restricted the application of Section 15 of the Tax Appeals Tribunal Act, limiting its application to only cases where the tax dispute is about the amount of tax payable. In a majority 3 of 5 ruling, Justices Kenneth Kakuru, Egonda-Ntende and Ezekiel Muhanguzi ruled that, “Section 15 of the Tax Appeals Tribunal Act – in so far as it compels an objector to a tax assessment whose challenge is not with regard to the amount of tax payable, to pay to the tax authority 30% of the tax assessed – is inconsistent with Article 44 of…

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