Taxes

• Kenya’s chance to raise more taxes slim, says report

  
  1 week ago
  World Bank says tax revenue as a ratio of GDP fell to the lowest level in more than a decade in 2018.

• Kadogo economy: Firms reduce quantity, avoid price raise to stay afloat

  
  1 week ago
  Manufacturers find ways of dealing with increased cost of production

• No reprieve for the poor in public hospitals as they shoulder costs

  
  1 week ago
  Public hospitals have not lived up to their objective of shielding the poor from the high cost of healthcare, a new World Bank report has shown.

• New county levies a burden to locals

  
  2 weeks ago
  The new plan to raise money is as a result of budgetary cuts by Parliament.

• Emotions around new taxes ignore economic reality

  
  3 weeks ago
  Saddled with debt, the Government had to find a way out to fund its expenditure

• Economy grows amid VAT gloom

  
  3 weeks ago
  Improved agricultural production had a multiplier effect on the manufacturing sector and agro-processing.

• Kisumu County's new tax areas opposed

  
  3 weeks ago
  Uproar has greeted plans by Kisumu to widen its revenue base to conventionally non-targeted streams.

• House fights to keep new taxes

  
  3 weeks ago
  Parliament argues that is saved citizens from paying other excessive levies.

• Graft lords are back to collect after tax vote

  
  3 weeks ago
  The five events that happened last week in the country, of which four were at Parliament, need more interrogation.

• Double blow for workers as Uhuru piles taxes on pay, hikes prices of goods

  
  1 month ago
  New measures will raise cost of living especially for poor households.

• Will those who dug Kenya into this mess stand up?

  
  1 month ago
  It is hard to take President Uhuru Kenyatta seriously when he says we must tighten our belts while he proceeds with business as usual.

• How Uhuru’s new taxes will affect your life

  
  1 month ago
  Cost of mobile money transfers, bank transfers, Internet and kerosene to go up as salaried earners take home less, thanks to mounting taxes.

• Uhuru’s memo moves us from the pan to the fire

  
  1 month ago
  Until two years ago, VAT was the highest income earner for the Government at 25 per cent of all revenue collected.

• Court declares Rotich taxes illegal

  
  1 month ago
  Justice Winfrida Okwany ruled that a Bill cannot be implemented until it is processed to an Act of Parliament.

• Uhuru’s taxes a blow to the poor

  
  1 month ago
  President Uhuru Kenyatta's proposed tax increases seen as hurting the poor

• Graft blamed for widening fiscal deficit

  
  1 month ago
  During last week’s State of the Nation address, President Uhuru Kenyatta told Kenyans that the new taxes and austerity measures were due to the high

• Uhuru proposes 8 per cent VAT rate, slashes Sh52b in government spending

  
  1 month ago
  All eyes now on Parliament as MPs summoned to special sitting to discuss the Finance Bill 2018.

• Matatu operators protest high levies

  
  1 month ago
  Transport was disrupted along the Kisii-Sotik road on Tuesday after matatu operators blocked the highway protesting high taxes.

• Treasury opposes halting of fuel tax

  
  1 month ago
  Officials tell House team that they are unaware of any court order halting new levies.

• Hefty taxes will keep Kenya at the bottom of the pile

  
  1 month ago
  For those with longer memories, this past week was playback from the 1990s Kenya, when fuel shortages were the norm because of economic mismanagement.