For a tenant who hasn't paid rent, Nairobi automatically transforms from the "green city under the sun" to the concrete jungle of hardships (shamba la mawe).
Tenants become experts in playing hide-and-seek with their landlords.
Yet landlords appear to be masters of the hide-and-seek game when it comes to paying taxes on rental income that for over a decade now, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been unable to master how to properly net this large bracket of taxpayers.
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