Is the Finance Bill 2025 about boxing or dancing?

National Assembly's Finance Committee Chair Molo MP Kimani Kuria displays a QR Code to be uploaded on the Parliament's portal for more information on the Finance Bill, 2025 and the Virtual Asset Providers Bill, 2025, he urged Kenyans to read and understand the document in details during the commencement of Public Hearings at Edge Convention Center, South C Nairobi. May 22nd,2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Until last year, Finance Bills passed through the system without any fanfare or violence. Some Kenyans had not even heard of the Bill, which gives the government authority to raise revenues once it's signed into law.

The Bill has now been put under a microscope, scrutinised clause by clause and the implications for our pockets and corporate bottom lines.