A smartphone user. Ugandans now have to pay a USh200 tax ($0.05) a day to access Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and many such other digital crutches of modern life. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Everyone remotely interested in public affairs will know of the dust raised in Uganda by controversial “social media tax” which came into effect July 1.
From that fateful day, Ugandans have to pay a USh200 tax ($0.05) a day to access Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and many such other digital crutches of modern life, as a cash strapped government in Kampala goes in search of additional revenue.
