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AAGM: Minister of Finance Ssendaula Rejects Revenue Authority Salary Raise.

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(From New Vision (Uganda): AAGM)

The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Gerald Ssendaula, yesterday rejected demands by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) employees to increase their pay as a means of curbing corruption in the tax body, writes Milton Olupot.

Ssendaula, while testifying before the commission of inquiry into alleged corruption in the URA, said the URA staff were highly paid and the corruption in the tax body was due to moral decay and not poor pay.

URA heads of departments told the commission chaired by Justice Julia Ssebutinde that low pay for the staff and lack of a pension scheme were some of the major causes of corruption ...

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