Your report on us in URA was quite unfair, to say the very least!

Sep 11, 2003

SIR— I wish to comment on your article, “Billions lost in URA”, published in The New Vision last Tuesday. The article’s headline was misleading, alarmist, tarnishing to the URA’s image and tending to affect taxpayers’ compliance.

SIR— I wish to comment on your article, “Billions lost in URA”, published in The New Vision last Tuesday. The article’s headline was misleading, alarmist, tarnishing to the URA’s image and tending to affect taxpayers’ compliance.
For your information, the facts are as follows:
The Auditor-General carries out routine audit which is a continuous activity throughout the year. It is not a special audit as your article says.
The Auditor-General raises queries during the financial year and responses are made.
At the end of the year, a meeting with URA management is held to review performance. Usually the review is based on the queries that have been raised during the financial year.
At the time of writing the report, most of the queries had been resolved.
Furthermore, you reported that Mr Kaweesa, the URA assistant commissioner tax education, declined to comment. But the reporter never contacted him at all as alleged. In future, please ensure that your reporters make an effort to get the latest information on the Auditor-General’s report before publishing wrong information.

Stephen Rugumba Wakame
Ag. Assistant Commissioner Tax Education/URA Spokesperson

Editor: Details of the Auditor-General’s report were published as soon as they were made
public. Inevitably, the information was about one year old.

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