Patrick Kabagambe Archives – CEO East Africa

Tax Appeals Tribunal sets aside UGX4.6 bn tax bill against Kansai Plascon

Jeff WintersLegal & Justice News & Analysis The Big StoryApril 14, 2023April 14, 2023

The Tax Appeals Tribunal, sitting in Kampala has set aside a UGX4.6 billion import duty assessment against paint makers, Kansai Plascon Uganda. The company dragged the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to the Tribunal, challenging an import duty assessment of UGX4,623,958,639 on raw materials imported between 2017 to 2021 from Egypt, namely long oil alkyd resins, polymers and calcium carbonate. Egypt, just like Uganda, is a member of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA); therefore, the said goods were supposed to enjoy preferential tax status. In the tax dispute, URA told the court that during this period, Kansai…

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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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How friends, Birungyi Cephas Kagyenda and Enoch Barata, built Uganda’s most influential tax law firm

Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryJuly 25, 2020July 13, 2023

You have often heard, and it is true, that only two things in life are certain- death and taxes. While it is obvious that government is a silent shareholder in every business and an unseen signatory to every transaction and therefore will want a portion of it; almost every time, how much of it or when it is due is often not as direct, which is why you need a good tax lawyer. In fact with a good tax lawyer and proper tax planning, sometimes the certainty of taxes can be properly sized, deferred, reduced or gotten rid of all…

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