How to Pay property Tax In Uganda

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Pay property Tax In Uganda By Yourself

  1. Take the tax bill for your property in the office of the municipality in the area you live in.
  2. Cash the money at cash counter
  3. You will receive an acknowledgement for the payment, make sure to keep it in your wallet

Required Documents For Pay property Tax

You’ll need the tax invoice for your property for the payment.

Office Locations and Contacts

Uganda Revenue Authority Headquarters:Plot M193/M194, Nakawa Industrial Area,
P.O. Box 7279 Kampala, Uganda.
Phone: +256 414744000, 0800117000 (toll free)
Email: info@ura.go.ug
Website: Uganda Revenue Authority

Additional offices Kampala South, located in the Old Kampala Mosque,
Kampala North is located within Bwaise (Mulago Kalerwe Round about).

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)
Crested Towers (Tall Tower)
Tel: 041-7443000, 041-7443134

Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)
Nakawa (HQRS)
Tel: 041-7440000, 041-7442042

Eligibility

  • You must be an Ugandan citizen and should be at least 18 years old.
  • The person responsible to pay the rate is who owns the home on behalf where the rate was made.
  • Anyone who owns a property that serves for business use (including rental properties for residential use) is able to be paid.

Fees

  • Amount that is imposed annually on a home, usually between the 0 and 12% range of the value that is rat-able with the minimum amount of 22,000(or less). For *KCCA, it’s 6percent.
  • The cost of these fees and charges vary between Districts in Uganda.
  • The amount of property tax is determined based on area of the residential. Therefore, it differs between different types of property another.
  • If the income earner is an organization The Corporate tax rate for Uganda is thirty percent (30 percent) on the total annual earnings of the corporation. when the person who earns income of a property transaction is an person or registered partnership or business entity the tax rate for graduated tax is twenty five percent (25 25%)) for those with a salary of Ugshs.,1,500,000 or more, per year.

Validity

  • The tax documents for property are valid for a single year. Each year, you must renew it.

Processing Time

  • It is immediately.

Instructions

  • Property tax can be paid in person or on the internet.
  • You must have valid details on your property tax.

Requirements Information

  • The particular property tax is necessary to pay for the tax due on the property.

Documentation is needed

  • In Uganda The Rating Act allows local authorities to tax land or improvements to land (e.g. building structures.
  • The property rates within Uganda are currently levied on the land.
  • The owner of an apartment, landor structure has to pay taxes on property to Uganda’s Government of Uganda. The governing authority for the area levy the tax on the owner of the property in which it is situated.
  • There are a variety of taxes applicable to real estate and properties in Uganda. The popular public perception or notion that there aren’t any real taxes on real estate or property in Uganda is not true.

Information that can be useful

Properties are typically described as:

  • land-based properties
  • residential properties
  • commercial properties, and
  • industrial properties.

If the property owner is unable to pay the property’s rates to the date due, KCCA will recover these funds by:
The right to recover by warrant

  1. If the rate isn’t paid on the time specified for this purpose, KCCA may cause a demand notice to be served to the person who is liable, demanding the individual to pay the amount plus interest, if applicable at all, within two months of the delivery of the notice.
  2. If, following the delivery in the form of a demand notification and the amount is not paid in two months, KCCA may request the magistrate with jurisdiction in the area where the property is located in the area for a summarizing warrant in order to collect this amount directly from the responsible party.
  3. The magistrate may grant the warrant upon ensuring that the person being pursued against is the one who is liable to pay the amount the court has ordered from him or her , and that they have been properly delivered with the demand notification.
  4. Any warrant issued pursuant to sub-section (4) is executed like an order of execution issued by the magistrate’s court that granted it.

Recovery by action

  1. KCCA could take action for collection of the rates and the interest that they owe, should there be there is any without an order notice on the property.
  2. The above procedure must be carried out within six years of the time the date when the interest rate was due.

Recovery from current and former tenants

  1. If the rents in respect of the property are in the process of being in arrears KCCA could serve anyone who is paying rent, or other periodic payments for the property, or any part or part thereof, a written notice informing the amount of these arrears as well as interest in the event of interest and requiring any subsequent rent payments or other periodic payments to be paid directly to Authority until such arrears and interests are fully paid.
  2. The notice that is served pursuant to subsection (1) is effective to give into KCCA that right claim the amount, pay and grant an allowance for rent or any other periodic payments as specified under paragraph (1).
  3. KCCA will also send the notice mentioned in paragraph (1) to the individual who is liable for paying the fee.
  4. Nobody is obligated to pay any amount pursuant to subsection (1) prior to when it becomes payable to the individual who is liable to pay the amount.
  5. To avoid confusion, any amount received by a person to whom anotice has been served pursuant to paragraph (1) will be credit to the person who is liable to make the payment for the arrears or the one who makes any money in the event of any notice served to the person under subsection(1) will be relieved from any liability to the person who is liable for the payment up to the amount of the amount.

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Other

These properties are exempt from having to pay property tax pursuant to the Local Government Act 2005 and its modifications of 2006;

  • Any Residence of the President that is official
  • Any official home of a traditional or cultural leader.
  • The property is exclusively used for worship services, or as the residence of the religious leader.
  • A property that is used solely for burial or as crematorium.
  • The property is used solely to support any educational or charitable organization that is of a public nature and which is supported solely through endowments or contributions from the public.
  • The property is solely for the goal of outdoor sporting or recreation.
  • All property belonging to a mission or organization which is entitled to privileges under diplomatic privileges Act.
  • All property belonging to an entity that Uganda is bound under an international treaty or convention.
  • Any property owned by an institution for which the Government has a contractual obligation to not levie taxes and fees against it.

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