The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), the organisation responsible for tax collection in Uganda, has chosen TCS to design and install a new integrated tax administration system.

The new system will manage all domestic taxes and duties for the URA, including income tax, value-added tax, withholding tax and other excise duties. The URA hopes the system will increase the level of tax compliance in the country whilst broadening the tax base and providing efficient services to Uganda’s tax payers.

Under the terms of the agreement a suite of applications will be developed for effecting and monitoring key activities of tax administration such as registration, returns, payments, assessment, tax-payer accounts, audit, compliance, objections, appeals and investigations.

Approximately £5.8 million of funding has been raised to pay for the system from such sources as the Department for International Development in the UK and the respective governments of the Netherlands, Belgium and Uganda.

N Chandrasekaran, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of TCS, said: “With our strong domain expertise in executing tax administration systems for various tax authorities across the globe, TCS will assist Uganda Revenue Authority in business process re-engineering, capacity building and change management to improvise and optimise the business process’ execution jointly with URA management. The new integrated system will reduce IT and operational costs and processing cycle times, while improving fiscal transparency and financial accountability”.