Legal Framework and Local Revenue Generation in Wakiso Municipality Council.
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2009-08
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Kampala International University. College of Economics & Management
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the legal framework on local revenue generation in
Wakiso District local government. Local revenue collection generates income for the local
government organization to finance the social services. Local collection source supports the
performance of Wakiso District. The study was guided by the objectives which include:
examining the nature of the local revenue sources, analyzing the trends of local revenues in
Wakiso District Local Government in the last 4 years, assessing the factors affecting local
revenue collection and possible ways of improving generation of local revenues by Wakiso Local
Government. The study used a cross sectional study with both quantitative and qualitative
approaches. Primary data was collected on 300 respondents using closed ended and open ended
questionnaire and interviewed 7 respondents. Results on the major source of local revenues
reveled that business licenses, market fees property tax, fish levy, business licenses, fines,
penalties, revenue from agricultural and forestry products market fees, bus stand and car
parking. The trend of local revenue collection kept fluctuating over the period of time with the
tremendous decrease of from 2016 to date which justifies the poor performance at Wakiso
district due to inadequate financing of activities. The dominant factors affecting changes in local
revenue collection include: incompetent revenue assessors, poor planning on revenue
management, lack of enough equipment, failure to carry out feasibility study and failure to notify
people on time of their dues poor assessment of tax which adversely affect the volumes of
revenue collection. However, low affordable tax rate influences compliance to local revenue
payments in Local Government. Strategies included: introduction of new revenue sources and
bench marking of successful techniques, improving relations between the district and the tax
payers and sensitization of the public to comply on payment of revenue, The study recommend
that local government should sensitize the public on relevance of paying revenues using local
media, community meeting with local leaders and regularly carryout feasibility studies to map
the revenue viable sectors to support the efficiency of local revenue collection.
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A Research Report Submitted to the College of Economics And Management in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration (Finance and Accounting) Of Kampala International University.
Keywords
Legal Framework, Local Revenue, Wakiso Municipality Council