Waluswaka is among the Members of Parliament who reacted to the public outcry over the new taxes; OTT services, commonly known as social media tax, and mobile money tax.

Speaking to NTV Uganda, the legislator boldly advised Ugandans to die instead of crying about taxes.

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"If you don't want to pay tax, just die. We are tired of these loans and grants from these European countries," he said.

Despite accepting that he indeed didn't know the process the government was going to use to collect these taxes, especially social media tax, Waluswaka reiterated that the government needs to raise more revenue to be able to sustain itself.

"At midnight I was fidgeting. But I know people are willing to pay but how to pay is a problem...The bible says you obey the government, I know it may pinch but we need roads," Waluswaka added during a separate interview.

On July 1st, social media tax and mobile money tax became effective causing an outrage among Ugandans.

Social media tax, formally known as Over The Top (OTT) services tax, is aimed at raising additional revenue to reduce "gossip".

Users are prompted to pay a daily UGX200 tax through their service providers to be able to access social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter among others -- excluding research and educational platforms like Wikipedia and Google.

The new mobile money tax levies 1% of the total mobile money transactions, deposits, withdraws and transfers