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Kenya's digital services tax on tech giants must go, IMF says

US e-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon. [iStockphoto]

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) study has backed the adoption of a controversial global minimum tax rate for multinational companies.

The proposal recommends the scrapping of the digital services taxes levied on tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.

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