State mulls netting 'hustlers' into unpopular housing levy

Taxing the informal sector has been a major headache for successive regimes, with employees in the formal sector having to shoulder the tax burden. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Principal Secretary of the State Department for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Susan Mang'eni has suggested the possibility of the informal sector paying the proposed 1.5 per cent housing levy through the Hustler Fund.

She says the potential of the sector's contribution to the State's ambitious housing plan is massive.