Safer Internet Day is a day in February when people come together for a better internet by raising awareness of the online issues that matter to us. It started as an initiative of the  European U...

Introduction The Virtual Opening of The Africa Business forum was held on the margins of the 34th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly Of Heads Of State And Government on 8th February 2021 a...

Background A joint venture (JV) enables companies to join forces in order to achieve goals such as expanding markets and lowering the costs of production. However, JVs or collaborations among competit...

Taxing businesses on profits as it has always been means that loss making entities comfortably escape the taxman’s noose. Bear in mind that the onus of determining profits or losses rests on the tax...

Yesterday, the 28 of January 2021; was the 15th Data Protection Day and the 40th anniversary of Convention 108. Data Protection Day or Privacy day is a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and d...

The Davos Agenda 2021, saw about 1500 global leaders come together under the theme of “A crucial year to rebuild trust” to discuss issues such as COVID-19 vaccination, job creation, climate change...

In March 2020, the World Bank declared COVID-19 as a global Pandemic prompting governments and health officials to take precautionary measures to curb the spread of the virus. Some of the measures put...

The Beneficial Owner is also required to indicate the source of the beneficial ownership information and whether the information obtained was (a) provided by the beneficial owner or their authorised r...

The Central Bank of Kenya has come up with Kenya National Payments Vision and Strategy 2021-2025 to regulate this area more effectively. The paper is open for public participation until the 31st of Ja...

In order to expand the tax-base in the country, the government, through the Finance Act 2020, has introduced a raft of new tax measures which took effect on 1st January, 2021. One of the tax measures ...

Kenya’s latest form of taxation is the Digital Service Tax (DST) which came into force on 1st January 2021. It imposes a 1.5% tax on the gross transaction value of services provided on digital platf...

The World’s largest Free Trade Area is finally here with us covering a market of 1.27bn people with a combined GDP of 3.4 trillion US dollars. The region does enter the agreement with great momentum...