Over the past four decades, a generation of entrepreneurs, professionals, farmers, and property owners has built significant wealth. As this generation retires or passes on, the challenge facing families is no longer accumulation, but continuity. Yet Uganda’s framework for trusts remains institutionally anchored in a system designed for land administration rather than economic governance. That mismatch is no longer theoretical. It is now economically costly. Trusts have outgrown land-centred regulation Historically, trusts in Uganda were closely associated with land—family holdings, Mailo interests, and protection of property for widows and minors. Although trusts are incorporated under the Trustees Incorporation Act, their…
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Pay television platform – DStv – is losing at least UGX2.7 billion due to illegal reproduction of its exclusive content by third parties through internet live streaming. An investigation by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), which followed a formal complaint by MultiChoice Uganda found that residential and commercial piracy had led to enormous financial bleeding with DStv, as one of the its affected platforms losing at least UGX 2.74 billion per year. DStv, a direct broadcast satellite television service, is owned by MultiChoice. The company also owns GOtv. Thus, UCC has instituted a multi-agency probe that is seeking to find…
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Insolvency practice has become global and dynamic in nature to the extent that, key players in insolvency practice require continued training and sensitisation about new critical insolvency practical aspects. Business has been identified as one of the biggest lifebloods to Uganda’s economy. It creates jobs, increases productivity, and generates growth. Restructuring and insolvency is an essential part of this system and is vital for ensuring that Uganda maintains its reputation as one of the best places in the East African Region to do business. To support the strengthening of the Judiciary’s and Insolvency Practitioners’ capacity to handle and resolve insolvency…
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that apply for trademarks, copyright and patent protection are more likely to experience more growth than SMEs that do not, according to Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation Hon. Dr. Monica Musenero. The Minister said this while delivering her opening remarks during the national workshop on intellectual property (IP) for small and medium enterprises in Kampala. The two-day conference which was organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in collaboration with the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), with the support of the Japan Patent Office (JPO)…
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The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) yesterday handed over a newly constructed health and sanitary facility to Oleni Primary School in Arua District. The facility was constructed with funding from URSB and other partners to support the over 1,000 pupils whose only sanitary facility was run down posing a health challenge to the children’s wellbeing after the re-opening of educational institutions from the COVID-19 related lockdown. Initiated by the URSB Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee chaired by Vincent Katutsi, the project was executed together with partners; MMAKS Advocates, Byenkya Kihika & Co. Advocates, ORTUS Advocates, SIPI Law Firm, Grand Global…
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The Financial Year 2021/2022 closed off for the Uganda Registration Services Bureau on a high note. The Bureau surpassed their set targets by over 125% marshalled by improved economic recovery that is enhancing formalization away from the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The varied social economic effects of the pandemic in the reporting period had a slow-down impact on most sectors, but strategic interventions reversed the negative trends setting pace for the super performance. Throughout this period, URSB continued to play its core role of formalizing the economy and facilitating private sector development and competitiveness by allowing many, individual…
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The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) collected a total of UGX45.87 Billion in non-tax revenue for the period July 2021 to April 7th 2022 against a target of 45.57Bn for the FY 21/22 representing a 100.6% achievement. This was revealed by URSB Registrar General Mercy K Kainobwisho while appearing before Parliament’s Legal and Parliamentary affairs committee on Thursday to discuss the agency’s Ministerial Policy Statement for Fiscal Year 2022/23. “Despite the effects of Covid 19 that slowed down the economy, we have managed to grow our NTR collections by 48% for the period July to March of Financial year 2021/22….
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The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) together with the Judicial Training Institute have trained Judicial Officers who adjudicate and administer justice in insolvency disputes. The training equipped Judicial Officers with the latest knowledge and skills of Insolvency law on how businesses can be supported to build resilience in order to survive and be successful in an increasingly uncertain world, especially after the impact left by the COVID-19 pandemic. The training was held at the Mestil Hotel on Wednesday 23rd March and Thursday 24th March, 2022. Insolvency practitioners ranging from lawyers, accountants, chartered secretaries, financial experts were trained on the latest…
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By Mercy K. Kainobwisho Pupils and students will finally be reporting back physically to regular school programming after a long wait of disruption attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. While most of them have outgrown both their uniforms and class levels from 2019, one thing remains clear; they need support now more than ever to transition and settle back into normal student life. The long break has adversely affected their social and physical development. It is a fact that economic hardships have hit households with some parents losing their source of income and some children being left orphaned. As the economy…
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The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has donated various items to the Mapeera Bakateyamba home for vulnerable people in Kampala. The donations included sugar, rice, posho, salt, soap, flour, eggs, toilet paper and beans. Handing over the items, URSB Registrar General Mercy K.Kainobwisho said the donation was in line with the organisation’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy and promised that the Bureau will continue to support the needy. “We care about the communities in which we operate. As such, we try as much as possible to look out for their needs and make our contribution, however small it is,” Kainobwisho…
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