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Museveni asked Nankabirwa why she had invited the ‘rebel’ MPs without his authorization. He later said that the matter would be discussed by the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC).

Two days after government insisted on maintaining the Shs 200 per day tax for social media users, Opposition MPs have announced that they are joining the campaign to mobilise Ugandans against the tax. The campaign that will run under a…

Acting on a financial report from the Bank of Uganda, the executive on Monday resolved to maintain the social media tax despite the growing agitation over that tax.

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine is wanted by the police over his demonstration against the introduction of social media and mobile money tax.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has blamed the confusion surrounding the Mobile money tax on his government's corrupt officials.

Government has succumbed to pressure and agreed to table a bill in Parliament next week, to review the controversial taxes on mobile money and social media.

Dramatic scenes were witnessed in Kampala on Wednesday as police broke up a protest by activists against the recently introduced tax on social media and mobile money.

President Yoweri Museveni has in a statement posted on his social media platforms offered an explanation as to why the government introduced taxes on social media and mobile money transfers.

On Wednesday afternoon, MPs Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine(Independent, Kyadondo East), Maurice Kibalya (NRM, Bugabula South) and Herbert Ariko (FDC, Soroti Municipality) joined Karuhanga to address journalists at Parliament.

On May 30, Parliament debated and passed the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill 2018, introducing new taxes including what is commonly as the Social Media tax and Mobile Money tax.