The country's body of high-ranking state officials resolved on Monday to maintain their earlier decision.

Social media tax and mobile money tax came into effect on July 1st causing a lot of controversy in the country.

The cabinet resolved to maintain the social media tax, formally known as OTT, and also made some slight revisions on mobile money tax despite last week's protests led by MP Bobi Wine.

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"The implementation of the Excise Duty on OTT at 200 shillings per day of access will continue," ICT Minister Frank Tumwebaze told journalists on Tuesday.

He, however, acknowledged that the government is working closing with telecom companies on how to "further improvements to the payment options".

Mobile money users will realise a reduction in tax payable on transactions from 1% to 0.5% only on withdraws.

Meanwhile, Minister of Finance and Attorney General are preparing a revised Excise Duty (Amendment( Bill, 2018, which is expected to be laid before Parliament on July 19th