{"id":6556,"date":"2024-03-06T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2024-03-06T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T07:03:07","slug":"sugarcane-farmers-in-kikuube-reject-proposed-tax-on-cane-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/03\/06\/sugarcane-farmers-in-kikuube-reject-proposed-tax-on-cane-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugarcane Farmers in Kikuube Reject Proposed Tax on Cane Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p>Sugarcane out growers in Kikuube district have rejected plans by Kikuube district local government to levy taxes on trucks transporting sugarcane.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kikuube district executive committee passed a resolution to levy Sh10,000 on each truck loaded with sugarcane that passes within the territory of the district.<\/p>\n<p>However, the famers have protested against the tax claiming its double taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Justus Birungi, the spokesperson of Hoima and Kikuube Sugarcane out growers association says that company where they supply the sugarcane pays government taxes.<\/p>\n<p>He says that when the company is determining the cane prices, it also considers the issues of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Max Omuto, the chairperson of the out growers says that district imposed the tax of farmers without involving the farmers and challenge the district leader to revise these tax.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the district levying such tax on farmers was unfair because farmers incur several costs as they grow and harvest sugarcane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Sugarcane out growers in Kikuube district have rejected plans by Kikuube district local government to levy taxes on trucks transporting sugarcane. Recently, Kikuube district executive committee passed a resolution to levy Sh10,000 on each truck loaded with sugarcane that passes within the territory of the district. However, the famers have protested against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6560,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}