URA to auction 100 bikes, 10 vehicles
May 25, 2010
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will auction over 100 motorcycles and 10 vehicles whose owners have failed to pay taxes, or abandoned them.
By Dradenya Amazia
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will auction over 100 motorcycles and 10 vehicles whose owners have failed to pay taxes, or abandoned them.
“We have 103 motorcycles and 10 vehicles to be auction in the northern region alone,†Lt. Patrick Mwesigye, the enforcement officer for northern Uganda, said on Monday.
He added that the items would be auctioned because they had overstayed their customs points and were deemed to have been forfeited to the state.
The law gives the Commissioner General powers to dispose of goods that are abandoned. Mwesigye added that the tax body had met all the legal procedures to auction the items.
“We did all what is required legally by gazetting and publishing our intention to sale the items in newspapers, and calling on the owners to come and claim them or forfeit them.
“Most of the vehicles and bikes we are auctioning were either abandoned or found with smuggled, counterfeit or prohibited goods,†he added. Mwesigye said the items to be sold were at Oraba in Koboko, Arua, Moyo, Madi Opei in Kitgum and Kamdini in Oyam under the Lira customs post.
He said Oraba had the biggest number of motorcycles at 57, Kamdini 27, Moyo 10, while Madi Opei had five and Arua four. Most of the motorcycles to be sold are either numberless or have fake number plates. Others were foreign-registered, but impounded for evading taxes.
Mwesigye revealed that unlike in the past where impounded vehicles were sold centrally in Kampala, URA decentralised its auction venues at custom posts.
THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will auction over 100 motorcycles and 10 vehicles whose owners have failed to pay taxes, or abandoned them.
“We have 103 motorcycles and 10 vehicles to be auction in the northern region alone,†Lt. Patrick Mwesigye, the enforcement officer for northern Uganda, said on Monday.
He added that the items would be auctioned because they had overstayed their customs points and were deemed to have been forfeited to the state.
The law gives the Commissioner General powers to dispose of goods that are abandoned. Mwesigye added that the tax body had met all the legal procedures to auction the items.
“We did all what is required legally by gazetting and publishing our intention to sale the items in newspapers, and calling on the owners to come and claim them or forfeit them.
“Most of the vehicles and bikes we are auctioning were either abandoned or found with smuggled, counterfeit or prohibited goods,†he added. Mwesigye said the items to be sold were at Oraba in Koboko, Arua, Moyo, Madi Opei in Kitgum and Kamdini in Oyam under the Lira customs post.
He said Oraba had the biggest number of motorcycles at 57, Kamdini 27, Moyo 10, while Madi Opei had five and Arua four. Most of the motorcycles to be sold are either numberless or have fake number plates. Others were foreign-registered, but impounded for evading taxes.
Mwesigye revealed that unlike in the past where impounded vehicles were sold centrally in Kampala, URA decentralised its auction venues at custom posts.