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Taxes and taxation has always been a hot potato in any political dispensation. More often than not, those in power are always seen as burdening the populace that is always reluctant to pay new levies.
President William Ruto has pegged his administration's delivery of services on an ambitious budget that he wants taxpayers to fund and not debt. As a result of this the opposition has lurched on the Kenya Kwanza's proposals on taxes to claim the mwananchi has been overburdened and in return, the president thinks it is the work of saboteurs who are behind the protests.
The ruckus has roped in former President Uhuru Kenyatta with Ruto claiming his regime was made up of tax cheats and he is going to push them to pay their fair share of levies. Kenyatta though seems unbothered by the insinuations saying those who have nothing to do will always be the loudest.
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