Markup and Margin Calculator (Uganda)

Uganda has no statutory maximum price or maximum margin for goods in general, so you set your own markup. What the law does police is how prices are set. Under the Competition Act, 2024 (Act 5 of 2024), section 9(3)(a), competitors who agree to fix purchase or selling prices commit an anti-competitive practice, and section 9(4)(e) treats resale price maintenance (a supplier fixing the minimum price a distributor may charge) the same way. Such agreements are void, and breaking the section is an offence (section 9(8)).

A business that holds a dominant position must not charge unfair prices. Section 11(2)(a) points to a 30% share of a market (or 60% for three firms together) as a factor in deciding dominance. Sections 11(5)(a) and 12(a) forbid unfair or discriminatory selling prices, and unfairly high or low purchasing prices. Abuse of dominance carries a fine of up to 100 currency points (UGX 2,000,000, as a currency point is UGX 20,000) or up to four years' imprisonment, or both (section 11(6) and the Schedule).

Electricity is the clearest example of a price that is regulated rather than free. The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) approves end-user tariffs every quarter under the Electricity Act and the Electricity (Application for Permit, Licence and Tariff Review) Regulations, 2007, so the per-unit price UEDCL charges is set by the published schedule, not by the seller. Current schedules are on era.go.ug/tariff-schedules. Separately, section 26 of the Weights and Measures Act makes it an offence to sell a lesser quantity than stated, or less than the price charged corresponds to, so a markup must never be recovered by short weight.