City lawyer and business consultant Silver Kayondo has taken to the Constitutional Court protesting the just implemented social media tax.
“We contend that the daily payment for OTT services is an infringement on the freedom of expression and hurts businesses.”
Kayondo, a co-founder of Drone Nerds told Matooke Republic that he will move the court to strike down the tax.
“We have been joined by several people and our demand is simple – that the court declares the whole law null and void and strikes it down.”
#SocialMediaTax Petitioners have been joined by Raymond Mujuni in defence of OTT journalistic sources and #digital broadcasting. On our way to Court to file against the AG. UCC and URA added for consequential Orders. We’ll fight up to the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights
— Silver Kayondo (@SilverKayondo) July 2, 2018
Besides the social media tax, Kayondo and team are also petitioning court to cause for a revision of the 1% tax on all Mobile Money transactions which he says will hurt financial inclusion efforts and the economy at large.