Fill vacuum at National Social Security Fund and lower taxes, State told

Kenyan workers pleaded with the government to lower tax rates on income and abolish tax on allowances, as employers raised alarm over the leadership vacuum at the National Social Security Fund, which has exposed billions of workers‘ money in pensions.

Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU) secretary general Francis Atwoli, his counterpart from the rival union –Trade Unions Congress — Wilson Sossion said the studies they had done, and which they had filed with the government, showed Kenyan workers are among those taxed heavily.