{"id":5885,"date":"2018-05-19T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5885-uganda-imposes-tax-on-qurans\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T14:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T14:23:25","slug":"uganda-imposes-tax-on-qurans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/5885-uganda-imposes-tax-on-qurans\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda imposes tax on Qurans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has imposed taxes on religious groups for sale of holy Quran and prayer books.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Uganda has imposed taxes on religious groups for sale of holy Quran and prayer books.<\/h4>\n<h4>The country\u2019s Revenue Authority (URA) imposed the taxes prompting clerics across faith groups expressing consternation and disbelief.<\/h4>\n<h4>The clerics are insisting that religious materials should be tax-exempt since they use them for \u201cspiritual nourishment\u201d of Ugandans.<\/h4>\n<h4>However, the URA commissioner general, Ms Doris Akol, disagreed, saying the practice of not taxing the entities and materials was in the first place \u201can anomaly\u201d.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe understand that Value-Added Tax (VAT) has in the past not been paid on the said prayer books. This was an anomaly,\u201d she wrote in an April 19 letter.<\/h4>\n<h4>The prelate had asked the tax man to release a consignment of 9,120 prayer books imported from Nairobi, Kenya.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda has imposed taxes on religious groups for sale of holy Quran and prayer books. \u00a0 \u00a0 Uganda has imposed taxes on religious groups for sale of holy Quran and prayer books. The country\u2019s Revenue Authority (URA) imposed the taxes prompting clerics across faith groups expressing consternation and disbelief. 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