1. Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "application to own use", in relation to goods, means applying the goods to personal use, including personal use by a relative, or any other nonbusiness use;
"Commissioner General" means the Commissioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority;
"company" means a body corporate or unincorporate, whether created or recognised under a law in force in Uganda or elsewhere, but does not include a partnership or trust;
"consideration", in relation to a supply of goods or services, means the total amount in money or kind paid or payable for the supply by any person, directly or indirectly, including any duties, levies, fees and charges paid or payable on, or by reason of, the supply other than tax, reduced by any discounts or rebates allowed and accounted for at the time of the supply;
"exempt import" has the meaning in section 20 ;
"exempt supply" means a supply of goods or services to which section 19 applies;
"finance lease", in relation to goods, includes the lease of goods where-
the lease term exceeds 75 percent of the expected life of the goods;
the lessee has an option to purchase the goods for a fixed or determinable price at the expiration of the lease; or
the estimated residual value of the goods to the lessor at the expiration of the lease term, including the period of any option to renew, is less than 20 percent of its fair market value at the commencement of the lease;
"goods" includes all kinds of movable and immovable property, thermal and electrical energy, heating, gas, refrigeration, air conditioning and water, but does not include money;
"hire-purchase agreement" means an agreement that is a hire-purchase agreement in terms of hire-purchase law in Uganda;
"import" means to bring, or to cause to be brought, into Uganda from a foreign country or place;
"importer", in relation to an import of goods, includes the person who owns the goods, or any other person for the time being possessed of or beneficially interested in the goods and, in relation to goods imported by means of a pipeline, includes the person who owns the pipeline;
"input tax" means the tax paid or payable in respect of a taxable supply to or an import of goods or services by a taxable person;
"Minister" means the Minister responsible for finance;
"money" includes-
coins or paper currency that the Bank of Uganda has issued as legal tender;
coins or paper currency of a foreign country which is used or circulated as currency;
a bill of exchange, promissory note, bank draft, postal order, or money order, other than a coin or paper currency that is a collector's piece, investment article or an item of numismatic interest;
"output tax" means the tax chargeable under section 4 in respect of a taxable supply;
"person" includes a partnership, company, trust, government and any public or local authority;
"public international organisation" means an organisation listed in the First Schedule to this Act;
"reduced consideration" has the meaning in section 18(7) ;
"relative", in relation to an individual, includes an ancestor of the individual, a descendant of the individual's grandparents or the spouse of the individual or of any of the foregoing;
"services" means anything that is not goods or money;
"tax" means the value added tax chargeable under this Act;
"tax fraction" means the fraction calculated in accordance with the formula: r r + 100 in which formula "r" is the rate of tax applicable to the taxable supply;
"tax period" means the calendar month;
"taxable person" has the meaning in section 6 ;
"taxable supply" has the meaning in section 18 ;
"taxable transaction" means a taxable supply or an import of goods or services that is subject to tax under this Act;
"taxable value", in relation to a taxable supply or an import of goods or services is determined under Part VI of this Act;
"trust" means any relationship where property is under the control or management of a trustee;
"trustee" includes-
an executor, administrator, tutor or curator;
a liquidator or judicial manager;
a person having or taking on the administration or control of property subject to another person having a beneficial interest in the property;
a person acting in a fiduciary capacity;
a person having possession, control or management of the property of a person under a legal disability.
Section analysis Source linked
This section supplies the definitions or statutory meaning governing “Interpretation”.
“In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires (a) "application to own use", in relation to goods, means applying the goods to personal use, including personal use by a relative, or any other nonbusiness use;”
Use this definition when interpreting other provisions that employ the language addressed by “Interpretation”.
Operative requirements extracted from the consolidated text.
- (b) "Commissioner General" means the Commissioner General of the Uganda Revenue Authority;
- (c) "company" means a body corporate or unincorporate, whether created or recognised under a law in force in Uganda or elsewhere, but does not include a partnership or trust;
- (d) "consideration", in relation to a supply of goods or services, means the total amount in money or kind paid or payable for the supply by any person, directly or indirectly, including any duties, levies, fees and charges paid or payable on, or by reason of, the supply other than tax, reduced by any discounts or rebates allowed and accounted for at the time of the supply;
- (e) "exempt import" has the meaning in section 20;
- (f) "exempt supply" means a supply of goods or services to which section 19 applies;
- (g) "finance lease", in relation to goods, includes the lease of goods where-
- (i) the lease term exceeds 75 percent of the expected life of the goods;
- (ii) the lessee has an option to purchase the goods for a fixed or determinable price at the expiration of the lease; or
31 further items remain in the statutory text above.
Express propositions in source-matched passages from judgments citing this section.
No judgment in the current Wakilii corpus expressly cites this section. Bare rule-number references are not assigned where the Order cannot be verified.
No section-specific amendment note or instrument-level amendment history appears in this consolidation.