The broad objectives of the Finance department are to:

1. Raise reasonable revenue and proper management of finances to enable efficient delivery of services to the public.
2. Construct a store for safe custody of government property.

The specific objectives are to:

1. Increase political and community awareness about the need to pay taxes through mobilisation and sensitisation.
2. Improve revenue collection through increasing efficiency and reduced administrative and operational costs.           
3. Strengthen the revenue generation of other sources such as market dues, licenses and permits. 
4. Improve on accounting skills and techniques of staff in finance and other departments and sub-counties through training to ensure financial discipline and proper accountability of public funds.
5. Enable District Council strengthen the Audit department in the District to ensure proper accountability and considerably reduce the level of financial embezzlement and misappropriation of funds at all levels through regular inspection.
6. Encourage investments in order to create employment and hence widen the tax base.
7. Improve storage of government property entrusted to the Finance Department

Budgetary Allocations to Departments

Table: Budgetary allocations by departments for FY 2014/15

Source: District Budget for FY 2014/15:     

Revenue sources by Amount

Revenue sources for three financial years

The major sources of revenue to finance the District Budget include Central Government transfers (unconditional and conditional grants), locally raised revenues, and support from development partners (both direct and off-budget). The following summarises the revenues by source.

Table: The District Revenue by Source for FY 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15

Source: Finance Department – Buikwe DLG

There are many development partners working in Buikwe District. Their contribution to the district in terms of service provision is enormous. However, little efforts have been made to involve them in the planning and budgeting processes of the district. Furthermore, due to capacity constraints, little effort has been made to integrate the support these partners are providing into the district budgets and plans.

Sectoral expenditure

Table: Estimated and Actual Expenditure for FY 2013/14