kra should tow the line

[X-TRAIL]

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is facing court opposition from increasing excise duty on at least 31 goods, including beer, fuel, bottled water, and juice from October 1.

Two Kenyans have petitioned court to stop the impending decision by the taxman to increase excise duty on the products by 4.97 percent in line with average annual inflation.

Mr Isaiah Odando and Mr Wilson Yata argue that the decision, which is slated to take effect on October 1, will put pressure on cost of living.

This will see manufacturers pass on the additional cost to end users in what may further stoke public outrage over the high cost of living.

Most households are yet to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which triggered layoffs, pay cuts and business closures.

 

[The.Black.Templar]

How do you guys want the government to be financed?

 

[Anglututu]

Let them increase taxes on beer, cigarettes and most non essentials.
Basic commodities should not have taxes raised atleast watu wa afford chakula and necessities.

 

[mzeiya]

How do you guys want the government to be financed?

Thoughts and prayers

 

[X-TRAIL]

How do you guys want the government to be financed?

they should first stop the stealing and unnecessary projects they have come too much

 

[Magreb]

How do you guys want the government to be financed?

The way it has always been financed bila hizi shida mingi. Ama jubilee ndio imediscover public finance? See the bigger picture.
You see son what high taxes and expensive energy does is to drive competitiveness out of the window. Businesses are increasingly realising that tax evasion now qualifies as a business strategy and are finding ways of actively evading. Me myselefu and I for example have somehow figured that it is cheaper for me to evade taxes and bribe someone down the road than fully comply.

 

[The.Black.Templar]

they should first stop the stealing and unnecessary projects they have come too much

nothing anybody can do about the stealing, there is nobody to blame check @Field Marshal thread on the same

 

[The.Black.Templar]

The way it has always been financed bila hizi shida mingi. Ama jubilee ndio imediscover public finance? See the bigger picture.
You see son what high taxes and expensive energy does is to drive competitiveness out of the window. Businesses are increasingly realising that tax evasion now qualifies as a business strategy and are finding ways of actively evading. Me myselefu and I for example have somehow figured that it is cheaper for me to evade taxes and bribe someone down the road than fully comply.

the gavament still needs to be financed, going broke is not an option

 

[Magreb]

the gavament still needs to be financed, going broke is not an option

Do you then do that at the expense of sustainable economic activity?