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Uganda Enacts Income Tax and VAT Amendments in Relation to Islamic Financial and Takaful Businesses

The main changes to the VAT rules include

  • allowing input VAT credit for taxable supplies to persons offering Islamic financial business for sale-based financing,
  • expanding the time of supply rules for such goods,
  • adding Islamic financial business and takaful to the definitions,
  • requiring tax returns from takaful business managers, and
  • allowing the Commissioner General to re-characterize Islamic financial arrangements for tax purposes.

These changes will take effect on July 1, 2023.

Source Orbitax

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