Filing VAT Returns

It's a silly process, it's unnecessary but it is also something you have to endure. I woke early to make sure I was in the queue, at Times Tower. The first queue's the one you stand in to get your form, then you fill it in to say you've nothing to submit to the Revenue Authority.

Angela Wairimu on the challenges of filing for taxes in Kenya. Afrifail? What has your experience been?

Taxation: MPs and Judges have it wrong

Taxation is premised on the exercise of sovereign legislative authority. Elected representatives lay down the general policy and legal framework for taxation in all democratic societies in line with the celebrated maxim of “no taxation without representation.” "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." -Benjamin Franklin, 1789.

Parliament is supposed to be the embodiment of the sovereign will of the people and the personification of their collective legislative wisdom. Whereas there is a general consensus amongst ordinary people that everybody, including Members of Parliament and other Constitutional office holders should pay tax, our MPs and Judges of the High Court think otherwise.

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Kalonzo Musyoka on Taxation

Read here Kalonzo Musyoka's tax platform for Kenya if elected president.