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Africa Live: Kenya's new planned tax hikes spark anger - BBC News Africa Live: Kenya's new planned tax hikes spark anger - BBC News
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Paul Njie
BBC News
The Kenyan government is planning to introduce new and enhanced taxes in the latest proposed law which has triggered widespread criticism in the country. Chad’s interim Prime Minister Succès Masra says he has filed
The price of bread is set to increase after the national treasury proposed to remove the key consumer staple from the list of zero-rated supplies, a value added tax (VAT) exemption list. a petition at the Constitutional Council challenging the preliminary results of
The cost of mobile money transfers, airtime and data is also set to go up as the government seeks to raise an additional $2.4bn (£2bn) in taxes, in the financial year that starts in July. last week's presidential election.
In the proposals carried in the 2024 Finance Bill published on Saturday, the government is also introducing a new motor vehicle tax that will see motorists pay up to $750 annually to keep their vehicles on the road. It
The new tax is part of a series of financial measures introduced by President William Ruto's government to fund its extensive infrastructure and social programmes. comes as he considers himself the actual winner of the polls instead of his
The move has generated sharp criticism with politicians and human rights activists terming it "burdening". boss General Mahamat Déby, who was declared winner with 61% of the vote.
The opposition has threatened to mobilise protests across the country if the government goes ahead with the new tax measures. “With
Last year, the government introduced several taxes, including a controversial housing levy, despite widespread objection from some Kenyans. the help of our lawyers, today we submitted a request to the Constitutional
Read more: Council to reveal the truth of the ballot boxes,” Mr Masra announced in a social media post on Sunday.
William Ruto: The ‘tax collector’ president sparking Kenyan anger The
opposition figure and his Transformers’ party say the results should be
annulled, alleging that ballot boxes were stuffed, while others were carried
away by soldiers to be counted elsewhere.
Some opposition members were arrested and Mr Masra
and his supporters threatened, the party added.
However, Mr Masra reiterated his call for his followers to remain “peaceful for the love of
our country”, insisting that “the change you want to see cannot happen in a
destroyed country”.
He had earlier urged them to mobilise and hold peaceful
demonstrations to defend their votes.
The Constitutional Council is set to decide in the coming days whether to
uphold the preliminary results or annul them as requested by Mr Masra and
Yacine Abdramane Sakine, another candidate who lost the election.
Even
though the council is yet to confirm Mr Déby as Chad's new
president, some heads of state such as Nigeria's Bola Tinubu and Guinea
Bissau's Umaro Sissoco Embalo have already congratulated the military leader.
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