OTT tax

If there's anything to remember about 2018, it's the controversial daily OTT tax introduced by the Ugandan government mid this year. With it also came interesting ways of evading the tax for those that thought it was unfair for the government to censor their online... Read More

On Day three of a wild fire, the fire extinguisher seems to turn up. The beginning of July has defined that Ugandans using social media are obliged to pay an excise OTT tax of Ugx 200 ($0.052) daily for use of Over-The-Top (OTT) services. Already three... Read More

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are used the world over to circumvent internet firewall restrictions. For this reason, VPNs stand to undermine the new OTT service tax now levied on various financial services and social media in Uganda. Consequently, the UCC (Uganda Communications Commission) has now... Read More