{"id":21602,"date":"2015-12-03T05:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kampala-shops-closed-as-traders-go-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T05:32:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T05:32:06","slug":"kampala-shops-closed-as-traders-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kampala-shops-closed-as-traders-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampala shops closed as traders go on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Traders under their umbrella body Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have started a two-day strike in protest of new regulations set by the national tax body Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).}<\/p>\n<p>According to the new rules, a trader found in possession of merchandise not cleared by URA is prosecuted instead of paying a fine.<\/p>\n<p>KACITA Spokesperson, Issa Sekitto, said they shall not open their shops until URA withdraws a letter that implements what he termed as a harsh policy which is not friendly to traders.<\/p>\n<p>He said they have had a series of meetings with the concerned authorities who have turned a deaf ear to their grievances.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9563 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2015_12_largeimg203_dec_2015_123521267.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE:THE NEW VISION:Kampala shops closed as traders go on strike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Traders under their umbrella body Kampala City Traders Association (KACITA) have started a two-day strike in protest of new regulations set by the national tax body Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).} According to the new rules, a trader found in possession of merchandise not cleared by URA is prosecuted instead of paying a fine. KACITA Spokesperson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2465],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-the-new-vision"],"bylines":[{"id":2465,"name":"The New Vision","slug":"the-new-vision","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2465,"name":"The New Vision","slug":"the-new-vision","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070587,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21602.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}