Barbara Musiimenta
Senior Associate
Expertise
Contacts
bmusiimenta@kaa.co.ug
Professional Qualifications
Post Graduate Diploma in Law, Law Development Centre
LLB from Makerere University
Profile Summary
Barbara is currently a Senior Associate at Kampala Associated Advocates working with the Taxation and Litigation Department. He specialises in Taxation Litigation and Tax Advisory.
She has extensive experience in Taxation and has been part of a team that has successfully represented several Corporations in complex tax disputes involving large tax assessments.
Professional Memberships
- Member, Uganda Law Society
- Member, East African Law Society
Employment History
2022 to date: Senior Associate, Kampala Associated Advocates
2017 to 2022: Associate, Kampala Associated Advocates
2016-2017: Legal Assistant, Kampala Associated Advocates, Uganda.
2015- 2016: Intern, Kampala Associated Advocates, Uganda.
Top Matters
- Part of a Litigation team handling a dispute worth over USD 98,000,000 before the Commercial Court of Uganda, and has advised on several other cases involving debt recovery on behalf of some the biggest banks in Uganda.
- Part of the team handling recovery under both secured and unsecured debts, debt restructuring and insolvency.
- Specializes in litigating tax disputes and is currently part of the team handling one of the biggest tax disputes worth an estimated UGX. 320,000,000,000.
- Currently handling a tax litigation matter regarding assessment of tax arising from use of alternative methods of apportionment of input tax.
- Successfully handled an arbitration matter where former employees were claiming unlawful termination of their employment contracts.
- Part of a team that successfully represented the leading Telecom Company, MTN (U) Limited in a USD 2.5million dollar dispute against Uganda Telecom Ltd.
- Part of a team that successfully defended MTN in a suit about the legality of mobile money transactions, and succeeded in having the suit dismissed.
- Part of a Team that successfully represented MTN at the Tax Appeals Tribunal in a Customs dispute regarding the taxation of part shipments.
- Part of the team appearing on behalf of National Social Security Fund in a UGX 89 billion dispute on whether interest paid to members of the fund is an allowable deduction in assessment of income tax.
Barbara is currently a Senior Associate at Kampala Associated Advocates working with the Taxation and Litigation Department. He specialises in Taxation Litigation and Tax Advisory.
She has extensive experience in Taxation and has been part of a team that has successfully represented several Corporations in complex tax disputes involving large tax assessments.
Professional Memberships
- Member, Uganda Law Society
- Member, East African Law Society
Employment History
2022 to date: Senior Associate, Kampala Associated Advocates
2017 to 2022: Associate, Kampala Associated Advocates
2016-2017: Legal Assistant, Kampala Associated Advocates, Uganda.
2015- 2016: Intern, Kampala Associated Advocates, Uganda.
Top Matters
- Part of a Litigation team handling a dispute worth over USD 98,000,000 before the Commercial Court of Uganda, and has advised on several other cases involving debt recovery on behalf of some the biggest banks in Uganda.
- Part of the team handling recovery under both secured and unsecured debts, debt restructuring and insolvency.
- Specializes in litigating tax disputes and is currently part of the team handling one of the biggest tax disputes worth an estimated UGX. 320,000,000,000.
- Currently handling a tax litigation matter regarding assessment of tax arising from use of alternative methods of apportionment of input tax.
- Successfully handled an arbitration matter where former employees were claiming unlawful termination of their employment contracts.
- Part of a team that successfully represented the leading Telecom Company, MTN (U) Limited in a USD 2.5million dollar dispute against Uganda Telecom Ltd.
- Part of a team that successfully defended MTN in a suit about the legality of mobile money transactions, and succeeded in having the suit dismissed.
- Part of a Team that successfully represented MTN at the Tax Appeals Tribunal in a Customs dispute regarding the taxation of part shipments.
- Part of the team appearing on behalf of National Social Security Fund in a UGX 89 billion dispute on whether interest paid to members of the fund is an allowable deduction in assessment of income tax.
