Hits and misses of Budget 2021/22 amid taxing times

Kenya's Treasury CS Ukur Yatani (PHOTO: FILE)

The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe and Kenya has been no exception.

In March 2020, when the World Health Organisation announced the world was in a pandemic, no one believed it would last this long and indeed that the virus would shut down economies virtually everywhere. Many countries have gone into recession, which some say has been worse than the 2008 financial crash and even the Great Depression of the 1930s.