Who will be smiling, who will be in tears in 2018

A customer check price of sugar at Mama Watoto Supermarket in Kakamega in 2015. Many are expecting the government to reduce taxes on common commodities. [Benjamin Sakwa| Standard]

Prices of some basic consumer commodities are expected to increase because of new taxation measures that came into force on January 1.

Gamblers, who were slapped with higher taxes have protested, but consumers too will have to pay more following expiry of a Government subsidy that facilitated low-cost maize flour.