[kictanet] More support for springing startups

[Martin Gicheru]

Sometime back while I was in Uganda I had a chat with an individual at
Uganda's equivalent of CA. One thing he mentioned in our conversation was
that starting businesses have a grace period in Uganda where they don't
need to pay taxes. Last I checked Uganda was up there among the leading
countries globally in entrepreneurship, not sure the two are linked.

Regards,
Martin Gicheru
Editor, Techweez

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Listers,
>
> Allow me to post a question on the group - which is the question I had in
> mind to present to CS Joe Mucheru. Mine is a burning question on how to
> incentivize the startup eco-system, including:
>
>    1. How to make the business registration process a bit less hectic.
>    2. Tax breaks for some amount of time during which they operate to
>    pick up business and traction around this.
>
> Having managed the eco-system in Mombasa for a while, I think you end up
> finding potential kids and other chaps having ideas, but who can not enter
> into some contests or can not be eligible to enroll to specific support
> frameworks because of their lack of a business registration certificate.
> Which is sad, to see such potential go all the way down the drain because
> of financial or other constraints.
> There is a pipeline issue for potential startups here that needs to be
> resolved, but how can we work together around this?
>
> --
> *Ahmed Maawy*
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