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...ba href=/sleep/a/b to write after her children went to bed."If someone asked me what the most difficult thing in this world is, I would answer with little hesitation that it is writing a book on taxation," said Moses Kagwa, the commissioner of tax policy in the ministry of finance, while launching the book recently at PKF.Mugume got the idea of writing a book after discussing with one of her staff who had done a course in Certified Public Accountancy about the high failure rate of the taxation paper by many people who study it in Uganda."I was bothered and I decided to do research about the paper."Her research showed Mugume, who is a certified chartered accountant, that more than half the number of people who lectured the taxation paper were not in practice.

They had just done taxation as a subject at a certain level.Mugume concluded that it would make a difference if a practicing person taught and brought out the reality of taxation on top of theory."I started compiling notes and lecturing at Zenith Business College on Conrad Plaza," she says.She started with 15 students out of whom 12 passed.The good results of Mugume's maiden class greatly encouraged her and she also started lecturing at Management Accountancy Training.However, what stunned Mugume during her teaching career was the fact that there was no Uganda-based tax reference book on the market.

The book covers taxation, income tax, VAT and it also gives some highlight on East African Community.

It also has model questions and sol...

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And somewhere around 5 a.m., I heard a thud, a loud bang.

I looked over and I noticed Terri wasn’t in bed.

So, I ran out in the hall and there was Terri laying on the ground.” Among households, “Dateline” posted a 6.7 overnight rating last night, up 26 percent from the 5.3 it has averaged season-to-date.

Meanwhile, ABC led the night among 18-49s with a 5.8 average rating and a 14 share despite airing mostly repeats.

CBS was second at 3.8/10, Fox third at 3.3/8, NBC fourth at 2.5/6, Univision fifth at 2.0/5 and WB sixth at 0.9/2.

At 7 p.m.

CBS led with a 4.3 rating for basketball overrun and the first 15 minutes of “60 Minutes.” ABC was second with a 2.7 for “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” NBC third with its 2.2 for “Dateline” and Fox fourth with a 2.1 for “Malcolm in the Middle” (1.7) and “King of the Hill” (2.5).

Univision was fifth that hour with a 1.2 for “Hora Pico” and WB sixth with a 0.8 for an hour of “Reba” repeats.

ABC took the lead for good at 8 p.m.

with a 4.9 for a repeat of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” CBS was second with a 4.6 for “60 Minutes” and the beginning of “Cold Case,” Fox third with a 4.5 for “The Simpsons” (5.1) and “The War at Home” (3.9), and NBC fourth with a 2.2 for “The West Wing.” Univision was fifth with a 2.0 for its first hour of “Bailando por un Sueño” and WB sixth with a 1.1 for a repeat of “Charmed.” At 9 p.m.

ABC led again with an 8.8 for “Desperate Housewives,” the night’s top-rated show among 18-49s.

CBS finished second ag...

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