Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA spent 3.6 billion shillings to rent offices. This was revealed by the acting Executive Director KCCA, Andrew Kitaka on Wednesday to Members of Parliament on the Committee of Commission, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE. He was responding to a technical …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises-COSASE has faulted Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA officials for spending Shillings 27 billion on legal fees in the 2016/2017 financial year. According to the Committee, the Shillings 27 billion was above the Shillings 16.3 billion budgeted for …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament is among the list of government entities that owe Kampala Capital City Authority–KCCA Shillings 16billion in ground rent and property rates for the 2016/2017 financial year. The others are Uganda Police Force headquarters, National Water and Sewerage Corporation-NWSC among others. The acting KCCA Executive Director, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority- KCCA wants the current valuation exercise concluded by June 30, to avoid interfering with the tax collection process for the new financial year that starts on Monday, July 1. KCCA says that any disruption to the conclusion of the exercise …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Robert Nowere, the acting Director Tax Collection under Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has defended the 6 percent property tax levy, saying it is fair and legal. The 2005 Local Government Act mandates Urban councils to set property rates not exceeding 12% of the rateable …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA offices have been broken into twice within a space of two weeks, KCCA councilors heard on Thursday. This came to light through a June 23, 2019 letter authored by a whistleblower. According to the whistle blower, unidentified people broke into …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has commenced investigations into the property valuation exercise for Kawempe Division. On Monday, Lukwago held a closed-door meeting with a team from the valuation office and leaders from Kawempe division. Earlier this month, council leaders in Kawempe and residents …
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Why experts now want KCCA to cope with, not fight rain Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | For hundreds of thousands of Kampala residents, the onset of the rain season these days means suffering, losing property and even lives and this year’s rainy season has not been any different. There …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have faulted Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) for failing to create a Metropolitan Police Force nine years after a law came into force. In their report, the MPs sitting on the committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE) say …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vendors down town Kampala are complaining of high operating market fees charged by Kampala Capital City Authority. The vendors operate on Luwum, Burton, Dastur and Namirembe streets every Sunday. The streets are closed to motorists to allow the vendors to display their merchandise as …
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