This new budget will be executed under the theme, “Industrialisation for Job Creation and Shared Prosperity”.
The Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development Matia Kasaija, has presented the 28.9Trillion shilling budget for the New Financial year 2017/207.
The budget has a target of Shs14.6 trillion in tax revenue with Shs14.3 trillion to be raised through internal and external borrowing.
Kasaija reeled off a raft of interventions in the areas of agriculture, education, health, tourism and water among others, which he indicated would help in enabling the economy recovery from its current doldrums.
This new budget will be executed under the theme, “Industrialisation for Job Creation and Shared Prosperity”.
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