The Commissioner General for Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Mr John Musinguzi, has told Parliament that they need an additional Sh167b to recruit 1,278 new staff.
Musinguzi said that the new staff will help to improve the Authority’s efficiency in executing its mandate.
In the 2024/25 national budget, URA has been allocated Sh619.989b of which, Sh253.495b will be spent on payment of wages, Sh321.174b for non-wage expenditure, while Sh45.320b will cover development expenditure.
“Uganda Revenue Authority is doing a structural review to improve the efficiency of the organisation to add on to the number of foot soldiers required to do this noble mandate to plug some of the revenue leakages and this activity hadn’t happened for quite some long period of time. Our proposal is that this recruitment can be spread over time because it would require about Sh167b,” said Musinguzi.
He is appearing before the Finance Committee to defend his agency’s budget and proposals.
