Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has today launched a countrywide exercise to monitor non-issuance of e-receipts and e-invoices and inconsistent or incorrect supply of goods without digital stamps.
In Kampala, the launch was carried out at Capital Shoppers in Ntinda.
On November 1, 2019, and January 1, 2021, URA introduced the administrative solution of Digital Tax Solution/Stamps (DTS) and Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) respectively, all aimed at improving business efficiency.
As a requirement, all VAT registered taxpayers were required to issue e-invoices/e-receipts for all their business transactions through EFRIS in real time and all gazetted products were to bear a digital tax stamp. The gazetted products bottled water, soda, beer, wines, spirits, cigarettes, sugar and cement.
Since the introduction of the solutions, URA has been sensitizing, onboarding and handholding various traders on how to use the solutions.
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Ian Rumanyika, the Ag Assistant Commissioner Public and Corporate Affairs, states: “Supplying of goods and services without issuing an e-invoice/e-receipt or manufacturing, importing of gazette products without a Digital Tax Stamp are offences punishable by law.”
He adds: “The general public is therefore encouraged to purchase gazette items that are affixed with digital stamps and also demand their e-receipts or e-invoices to avoid any inconveniences.”
