Birungyi Cephas Kagyenda, Managing Partner of Birungyi Barata & Advocates and one of Uganda’s foremost tax lawyers, speaks at a recent Transfer Pricing Roundtable organised by the firm. In this interview with CEO East Africa Magazine, he reflects on a career that has helped shape Uganda’s modern tax jurisprudence while building one of the country’s leading tax law firms.
Tell us a bit about the firm, Birungyi, Barata & Advocates. To the lay person, it is a prominent tax law firm… Well, we are a law firm, but we are also
Top, Clockwise To The Left: Crystal Kabajwara and her team have earned praise from TAT users, including Cephas Birungyi, Founding Managing Partner of Birungyi, Barata & Associates; Godfrey Akena, Managing Partner at Godena Associates; Bruce Musinguzi, Partner at Kampala Associated Advocates and Co-Head of the Taxation Practice; Andrew Kyambadde, Partner at Godena Associates; and Tonny Kalungi, Manager of Appeals Litigation at the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), for their transformative leadership and efforts in improving Uganda's tax dispute resolution system.
In April 2024, Ms. Crystal Kabajwara made history as the first female Chairperson of Uganda’s Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT). Her appointment marked a defining moment for the institution, which has served as
Following our publication of Uganda’s leading corporate and commercial law firms, CEO East Africa Magazine has gone further to boil it down to the leading individual lawyers. The CEO East Africa’s 2023