Taxing Government: The Case of the Uganda Revenue Authority’s Public Sector Office
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Research in Brief 28
This ICTD Research in Brief is a two-page summary of ICTD Working paper 84 by Henry Saka, Ronald Waiswa and Jalia Kangave. This series is aimed at policy makers, tax administrators, fellow researchers and anyone else who is big on interest and short on time. In the past three decades, revenue authorities in African countries have undertaken various reforms in a bid to increase revenue collections. Among these reforms is the segmentation of taxpayers along sizes of small, medium and large taxpayers. Even though government organisations have an obligation to pay taxes and should, in fact, be one of the biggest taxpayers in most countries, most revenue authorities do not treat government organisations as a separate segment of taxpayers.
Ronald Waiswa is a Research and Policy Analysis Supervisor at the Uganda Revenue Authority. He has collaborated with the ICTD on a number of research projects in Uganda on issues including taxing wealthy individuals and public sector agencies.
Jalia Kangave holds a PhD in Law from the University of British Columbia, and has over decade of experience in the fields of taxation, law, and international development. She previously served as the Principal of the East African School of Taxation in Uganda, worked as a tax consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Uganda, and was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Dr Kangave is the lead consultant for the International Centre for Tax and Development’s research programme on gender and taxation.
