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Taxing social media apps will help Ugandans develop their own local version — Ofwono reflects on Museveni’s proposed tax

William Kasoba by William Kasoba
April 6, 2018
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Government intention of imposing taxes on social media apps especially WhatsApp, FaceBook and Twitter has attracted a fair share of criticism. Government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo has defended President Museveni’s proposal saying  it’s better for citizens to come up with their own version of apps.

“President Museveni wasn’t talking about double taxing social media but his intention was to help Ugandans to make their own home based applications,” Opondo stated while appearing on Frontline Show.

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“The point Museveni is making will help Ugandans make their apps. In China, the equivalent of Facebook is called Alibaba,” he added.

According to internetstats.com, Uganda has 19m internet users as per December 2017 in a population of 44m which registers and increase of 42% from 2000.

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