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Museveni To Tax Social Media Usage
« on: April 18, 2018, 03:55:25 PM »
He sees too much gossip.  Probably just tired of interacting with regular folks.

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The government has proposed a daily taxation of Shs100 on all social media users.

While addressing journalists at Uganda Media Centre today, the State Minister for Planning, David Bahati said the Shs100 will be charged daily on each SIM card that uses internet for social media.
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President Museveni recently revealed he was planning to introduce taxes on social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Viber claiming that people use these platforms mainly for lugambo (gossip).

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Government-proposes-Shs100-daily-tax-social-media-users/688334-4390208-ekrmvcz/index.html
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