uganda · fy2026/27 · verified 11 july 2026
Pause — and know
where you stand.
Most Ugandans don't pay the wrong tax. They pay nothing — because nobody ever told them the tax existed. And when they do ask, URA's own website, PwC and the Big Four are wrong — we can show you where. Answer a few plain questions. We'll tell you which taxes apply to you, why, and when.
Your first 335,000 is tax-free. The rest is taxed in three steps.
She is the taxpayer. A market trader under UGX 150,000,000 of turnover falls into the small-business regime — and URA does not calculate her tax. She is expected to find her own bracket and type the number into a portal herself. No validation. Type too little and you attract an assessment; type too much and nobody tells you.
Why this exists
Right now, the people you'd ask are wrong.
URA's own website
Still publishes the PAYE bands that were superseded on 1 July 2026.
the tax authority
See for yourself ↗PwC Uganda
Publishes the wrong VAT registration threshold — and gets the deregistration test wrong too.
the Big Four
Grant Thornton Uganda
Their tax guide still carries a presumptive table that expired in 2020.
six years stale
RSM Uganda
Says 25% of a gratuity is tax-exempt. The Act gives that relief to termination compensation. Employers following RSM are under-deducting PAYE.
wrong on the face of s.19
MMAKS · Crowe · Global Law Experts
Still publishing a 0.5% minimum tax and a 3% stamp duty as law. Parliament deleted both on the floor.
reading the Bill, not the Act
A three-year tax exemption
Sits in the gazette — absent from URA's own exemptions page and from PwC's tax summary.
how many businesses paid tax they never owed?
A business doesn't fail to comply because it's dishonest. It fails because nobody can tell it what the number is.
The thing nobody else does
In Uganda, a tax can be signed and still not be law.
And two of this year's taxes died on the floor.
The 0.5% minimum tax
On companies carrying losses past seven years. Parliament deleted it on 23 April 2026. The Speaker asked what exactly you are taxing after seven years of losses. It is still being published as law.
🔴 we shipped this. then we caught it.
Stamp duty doubled to 3%
On every land transfer. Parliament rejected it on 21 April 2026. The rate is 1.5%. On a 500m property, being told otherwise costs you 7,500,000 you do not owe.
we refused to compute it. we were right.
Severance — one month per year
The President signed it on 29 April 2026. No commencement notice has been gazetted, so it is not in force. Every HR guide in Uganda is already reporting it as the law.
and nobody will tell you when it lands
A bill is not an act. A gazetted bill is not an act. A clause quoted by four law firms is not an act. In Uganda, the floor is where taxes die — and almost nobody watches the floor.
And silence is expensive
A UGX 4,000,000 arrear
more than triples in five years.
Interest runs at 2% a month, compounding — about 27% a year — on money nobody ever told you that you owed.
But it may be entirely curable. Disclose it voluntarily before proceedings begin and the Commissioner may waive all of the interest and the penalty. That's in URA's own rules. Nobody sells it.
Who this is for
Three people. Three things nobody told them.
The consultant
Five years of government contracts
Every client withheld 6% from every invoice. It was never a cost — it was tax he had already paid. He just never collected the certificates.
UGX 70,000,000 — sitting with URA
The founder
A grant ended. Payroll changed.
NSSF kept accruing after the grant stopped. There was no letter, no alarm, no notification event. It just kept growing at 10% a month.
Still unresolved
The finance manager
Bidding for a government tender
Every company return filed. Every shilling paid. Refused a Tax Clearance Certificate anyway — because one director had never filed his own personal return.
Lost the tenderWhat we do differently
We show our working
Every number, three levels deep: the answer, the arithmetic, and the actual section of the Act it came from.
We date everything
Uganda's tax law changes every 1 July. An undated tax claim is a liability. Every figure carries the day we checked it.
We say what we don't know
When we aren't sure, the calculator refuses — and explains why. Every competitor returns a number here. We return the truth.
We never say "do this"
We give you the options, priced, with what each one requires of you and where each one stops working. The decision is yours.
Three ways in
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Tell us about yourself in plain language. We'll tell you which taxes apply, why, when they're due, and what happens if you miss them. Then 37 calculators, each showing its working and citing the law.
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Your TIN · your money
Everything the calculators do — on your actual numbers, tracked over time, with the paperwork chased for you.
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Company · directors · staff
Payroll, invoicing, EFRIS, audit-readiness — and the one thing no accountant in Uganda does: look at your directors and your company together.
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"Your personal unfiled tax return is what's blocking your company's Tax Clearance Certificate."
A spotless company — every return filed, every shilling paid — is still refused its certificate if one director hasn't filed their own personal return. It's invisible from inside the company's books. You find out when you lose the tender.
Your accountant does the company. Nobody does the directors. The arrears live in the gap between them. A product with a "Personal" tab and a "Business" tab recreates that gap in software. So we didn't build one.
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