URA Starts Enforcing Use of Digital Invoices and Stamps
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has launched a nationwide campaign to enforce the use of e-receipts and e-invoices.
The campaign, according to Ian Rumanyika, the Authority’s acting assistant commissioner for Public and Corporate Affairs – will also monitor the “inconsistent or incorrect supply of goods without digital stamps.”
“The exercise is targeting supermarkets both in Kampala and upcountry,” he said.
URA unveiled Digital Tax Solution/Stamps (DTS) and Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution (EFRIS) in November 2019 and January 2021 respectively to improve business efficiency.
All VAT-registered taxpayers are now required to issue digital receipts through EFRIS in real-time and all gazetted products are to bear a digital tax stamp.
The gazetted products include bottled water, soda, beer, wines, spirits, cigarettes, sugar and cement.
But despite sensitization campaigns, Rumanyika said, “there has been continued supply of goods and services by VAT registered taxpayers without issuing e-invoices/e-receipts and a number of businesses are still in possession of unstamped gazetted products.”
He added: “Supplying goods and services without issuing an e-invoice/e-receipt or manufacturing, importing of gazetted products without a Digital Tax Stamp are offenses punishable by law.”
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