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• Mr Bbosa said the mood at URA head offices in Nakawa, Kampala, remains calm, with work going on uninterrupted. He was emphatic that despite the ongoing earth-shaking probe, URA has made tremendous gains in fighting graft over the last two years.

A wide-ranging investigation into allegations of unbridled corruption, gross abuse of office and tax evasion is underway at the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), where it is feared the country may have lost hundreds of billions of shillings.
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) on Wednesday afternoon confirmed to Daily Monitor that it dispatched a high level probe team to URA this week. Investigating officers are said to have started looking into what may yet turn out to be the worst case of mismanagement and graft in the troubled history of the tax body.
There are a litany of numbing points of inquiry, including reports of abetting tax evasion through connivance, extortion, and undue and reckless waivers of tax liabilities.
Ms Beti Kamya, the Inspector General of Government (IGG), yesterday hinted at damning whistleblower accounts, which triggered the investigations.
“We have started investigations but I am not at liberty to disclose [anything] because it may undermine the processes. I can confirm we started investigations into the [mis]management of URA,” she said.
“We did receive a detailed whistleblower’s account of a number of things going on in URA and we started investigations, but I will not give...

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