Completed Project

How reliable are Taxpayers’ Tax Returns Data? Data Management in Uganda Revenue Authority

The overall objective of this project is to examine how clean the tax return data is in the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).

The team will examine the following research questions:

  1. What data gaps exist in URA tax return records?
  2. What are the sources of errors (if any) in the return filing process?
  3. What challenges do taxpayers face while filing tax returns?
  4. What can the URA do to improve the quality of tax returns data?

Researchers

Jova Mayega

Jova Mayega has 14 years of experience in research and data management. He has worked with the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) since 2013 and is currently in charge of statistics and policy analysis. Jova also served as a statistician at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics between 2010 and 2013 and as a data manager at BRAC Uganda from 2008 to 2010.

Jane Nabuyondo

Jane Nabuyondo is a supervisor for Business Intelligence with 15 years of experience in tax administration and vast knowledge of government (public) operations. She is also the team lead in development and maintenance of the URA Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence solution, including overseeing the implementation of data governance initiatives in URA that will support the organisation to become a data driven entity.

Milly Isingoma Nalukwago

Ronald Waiswa

Ronald Waiswa is a Research and Policy Analysis Supervisor at the Uganda Revenue Authority. He has collaborated with the ICTD on a number of research projects in Uganda on issues including taxing wealthy individuals and public sector agencies.
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Project Outputs

African Tax Administration Paper
How Clean Are Our Taxpayer Returns? Data Management in Uganda Revenue Authority