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Low-paid workers escape KRA tax net

KK security guards. [File, Standard]

Kenyans who offer services such as cleaning and security can heave a sigh of relief after the government spared them from new taxes.

President Uhuru Kenyatta recently assented to the Finance Act, 2019, which scrapped an earlier proposal introducing withholding taxes on the services.

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