Anyone over 18 years old who holds a valid driving licence is authorised to drive a vehicle in Uganda.
Procedure:
Steps to get a permit
You pay Shs49,000 at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). Of this amount, Shs24,000 is for a learners’ permit. Shs25,000 is for test fees.
Visit any medical practitioner for certification.
You then pay Shs30,000 at Face Technologies. Your biometrics are taken and you are issued a learners’ permit.
You pay Shs49,000 at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). Of this amount, Shs24,000 is for a learners’ permit. Shs25,000 is for test fees.
You then pay Shs30,000 at Face Technologies. Your biometrics are taken and you are issued a learners’ permit.
You take this to the Inspectorate of Vehicles (IOV) for a driving test.
When you pass the test, you are informed. Likewise when you fail, you are told. For the successful learner, the IOV documents your results and sends them to URA in three days.
At the lapse of the three days you go back to URA and pay for a “full’ permit.You either pay Shs80,000 for three years or Shs56,000 for one year.
One week later, you go to Face Technologies and pay Shs60,000. You are issued a temporary drivers’ permit which is valid for one month.
A week later, you can pick your new permit.
Face Technologies Ltd
M505 Devon Kyambogo, Jinja Road
w: www.facegroup.co.za
You’re instantly receipted a temporary driving permit and an actual card after a month.
For Non Nationals
Necessary documentation
• You can drive in Uganda on a foreign licence for 3 months, after which you need to get a Ugandan licence.
• Download and fill in form TR VII from the www.ura.go.ug website. Under e-services, payment registration, NTR, choose the validity of permit required (1 year 55,000 ugx, 3 years 150,000 ugx), pay at a bank and take the receipt and form together with your original permit to Face Technologies in Kyambogo, where you pay ugx 60,000. You will be given a temporary permit and your licence will be ready after a week. If your original licence is not in English, you must get a translation from a recognised translation service, eg the Dept of Languages at Makerere University.
REGISTERING YOUR VEHICLE ONLINE WITH URA’S E-TAX SYSTEM
Procedure
Access the internet and go to the URA web portal; http:ura.go.ug register and obtain a ten digit Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN).
Upon successfully getting a TIN, a message containing the TIN, pass code and effective date of registration is sent to you. Use this message to go to the URA web portal and on the left hand side find an icon ‘create account’. Once you click this, input you TIN, pass code and date of registration and submit. URA will send you a password. When you get this, go back to the web portal and click login and input your TIN and password.
This will prompt you to create your own password.

THIS SHOULD BE KEPT SAFELY
Go to the ‘login’ icon again and input your TIN and password. After logging to your account, you will be led to the motor vehicle registration where you will select ‘add vehicle details’ for vehicles already in use or MVR Agent registration for newly imported vehicles. This will take you to the ‘Applicant details’ at the top of the webpage. You will be required to select the URA office where you will collect your registration book. You will also select ‘vehicle details’, input the details such as the make of the vehicle, chassis and engine numbers as provided in the log book.
Select next which will take you to registration details.
Here you will in put the registration number, date of first registration, type of registration (first time registration) and serial numbers at the back and front of the registration plates and there after submit the form. The system will then generate an acknowledgement receipt and URA will compare if the information provided matches with that in the system. If all tallies, the old logbook will be withdrawn and the new one issued but if not, you will be required to take your vehicle to the URA office for verification.
In case you cannot trace the owner who sold the motor vehicle to you yet that person did not transfer it into your name; place a notice in the newspapers for 14 days and swear an oath/affidavit with court and go to the URA office to facilitate you with registration.
You will need to pay stamp duty of Uganda shillings 5,000 on the sales agreement.