Tax burden needs to be shared equitably

The issue of tax evasion has been a subject of public discourse in the recent past with the president pronouncing himself on it during KRA’ s distinguished taxpayers awards ceremony held at the end of last month.

As Frederick, the great, said, ‘’no government can exist without taxation; the money must necessarily be levied on people’’. But he hastened to add ‘’the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress’’.