Yoweri Museveni slaps taxes on social media users in Uganda
Application icons for Facebook and WhatsApp. Ugandan President Museveni wants the taxman to tax opinions, prejudices, insults, friendly chats. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Faced with an increasingly critical citizenry, the Ugandan government has slapped new taxes on social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Viber to stop what President Yoweri Museveni has called lugambo (gossip).
Mr Museveni also targets commercial buildings to boost government revenue from the Ush50 billion ($13.5 million) the taxman collects from landlords annually.
