By; Gideon Peter Ssebulime
03rd April 2020
After 25 years of service at the helm of Uganda Revenue Authority Doris Akol has handed over the office to her successor John Rujoki Musinguzi.
Speaking at the handover ceremony this morning at their headquarters in Nakawa at the Office of the Commissioner General, Akol noted that change is normal and good for future leaders adding that it is also a step of growth and expansion for URA.
Akol has served for 15 years in senior leadership of URA and 5 years and 5 months as Commissioner General of URA. She is happy for the increase in revenue collection from shs.8 trillion when she took over to shs.16.6trillion last financial year 2018/19.
She also sounded the expansion of the tax register from 632,000 taxpayers to 1.5 million taxpayers, five completed and operational One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) out of six, availability of many tax payment options, I.T solutions and applications used to collect tax and expansion of tax education to include financial literacy and emphasized that URA is a robust and well respected revenue administration in the region and on the continent.
The URA Board Chairman Juma Kisaame, urged Musinguzi to build on Akol’s achievements to take URA to greater heights and advised him to improve and strengthen staff capacity and competence development for better performance.
For John R Musinguzi, the 6th Commissioner General in Uganda Revenue Authority, promised to serve the country as per the oath.
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