Kampala Capital City Authority has refuted reports of plans to introduce new taxes.

This comes amid reports of a looming financial crisis at the authority requiring the introduction new taxes to fill the gap.

Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago

KCCA spokesperson Peter Kawuju says much as they have to hit the 75 billion annual revenue target, introducing new taxes is not one of the sought avenues to achieve this.

He says the authority is instead focusing on widening the tax base in Kampala rather than introducing new taxes.

The authority last year faced a shortage in its revenue collections of about 5 billion shillings and several activities were halted.

The political wing led by Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago had suggested a cut in the authority’s expenditure like slashing of staff salaries so as to contain the situation and also rejected any idea of introducing new taxes.