This was revealed on Tuesday 10 January in Parliament when URA officials led by the commissioner-general, John Rujoki Musinguzi, appeared before the finance committee of Parliament to present their budget framework Paper for financial year 2023/24.
During the committee meeting, Musinguzi also revealed that URA has registered a surplus revenue collection of sh286b for quarter one of financial year 2023/2024.
The Otuke County Member of Parliament, Paul Omara, supported the proposal to have salary of URA staff enhanced saying it would be unfair to pay staff peanuts yet they are collecting revenue in trillions.
“I think we really need to consider adding URA more money to enhance salary of its staff. You can’t expect people to collect revenues in trillions of shillings yet they are only earning sh3m,” he said.
Government tabled the National Budget Framework Paper totaling sh49.9 trillion for the Financial Year 2023/2024 last month.
The document, which paves way for the budget approval process by Parliament, was tabled during plenary sitting last month by the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija.
The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, who presided over the House during the tabling referred the framework paper totaling sh49.9 trillion to the committee on Budget and other relevant sectoral committees for consideration.
According to the Public Finance Management Act, the Government should table the budget framework paper before Parliament by 31 December 2022, and by 01 February 2023, the House should have approved the budget framework paper.