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A public finance think tank has faulted the government's new plans to fix its finances through aggressive taxation which includes spying on mobile money transactions.
This is on the back of a battered economy, said the Institute of Public Finance(IPF), in a report on Kenya's fiscal state which cut the projected country's growth to five per cent this year - lower than the 6.1 per cent envisioned by the government.
Dubbed The Macro-Fiscal Analytic Snapshot, the report reviews some of the measures taken by the State to boost the exchequer's liquidity including fiscal consolidation and a plan to widen the tax base.
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