The dispatch book · File 034 · last verified 28 October 2026
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File 034 · from International Growth Centre · to Bank of Uganda
Promote data-sharing between financial regulators and providers to monitor tax effects in real time.
545days in the tray, no public evidence of actionRecommended 1 May 2025
Evidence slip
From International Growth Centre · to Bank of Uganda and other financial regulators · Excise
“Similar data-sharing frameworks should be promoted across regulators and providers to enable real-time monitoring of system-level impacts”
Policy Implications and Recommendations, PDF p.15
The desks
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Sent, 1 May 2025. Recommended in Mobile money tax: financial inclusion versus financial development (IGC final report) (Policy Implications and Recommendations, PDF p.15).
The route slip
From finding to result, link by link
Each box is one link of the reform chain. ✓ documented; ? claimed but not documented; · no evidence yet, with what it needs. This file stops at: Legal power.
- FindingDocumentedTransaction-level mobile money data made the tax's effects measurable.
- ProblemDocumentedPolicy effects on digital finance are hard to monitor without shared data.
- RecommendationDocumented"Similar data-sharing frameworks should be promoted across regulators and providers to enable real-time monitoring of system-level impacts" (International Growth Centre (Spadavecchia, Mugume, Apaa), Policy Implications and Recommendations, PDF p.15)
- Legal powerNo evidence yetneeds the provision giving the institution power to act
- InstitutionNamedBank of Uganda and other financial regulators
- ActionNo evidence yetneeds a dated decision, response or delivery document
- OutputNo evidence yetneeds a published output measure
- OutcomeNo evidence yetneeds an outcome measure with a baseline
- EvaluationNo evidence yetneeds an evaluation with a stated method
Why it was recommended
Finding. Transaction-level mobile money data made the tax's effects measurable.
Problem. Policy effects on digital finance are hard to monitor without shared data.
Strength of the evidence behind it: medium.
Who has the power to act
Bank of Uganda and other financial regulators. The legal power to act has not yet been checked in an Act, so this file cannot move beyond sent until it is.
Sources
- Mobile money tax: financial inclusion versus financial development (IGC final report)
International Growth Centre (Spadavecchia, Mugume, Apaa) · 2025-05-01 · Policy Implications and Recommendations and Conclusion, PDF pp.15 to 16