URA Staff Changes

On March 29th President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in exercise of his powers, relieved Doris Akol of her office as Commissioner General of Uganda Revenue Authority and replaced her with John Musinguzi Rujoki. The news caught the entire country by surprise because Mr. Musinguzi was an ‘outsider’ in the tax world- you may say. Unlike Allen Kagina- URA’s Commissioner-General between 2004 and 2014 and Doris Akol- URA’s Commissioner-General between November 2014 and March 2020, who had worked for 12 years and 19 years respectively, before becoming Commissioner Generals, Musinguzi had zero experience at Uganda Revenue Authority. The closest that he had…