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13 Jun 2025
Reining in Ghost Traders: Why KRA Suspended Online VAT Registration
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) requires that a person who supplies taxable goods and or services with a value of Ksh 5 million or more annually should be registered as a taxpayer under the VAT Act....
13 Jun 2025
Government Surveillance: The Curious Case of Pavel Durov
In August 2024, the Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrived at Paris’s Le Bourget Airport, en route to Finland, only to be met by French police. He was arrested on the spot, and held in solitary conf...
13 Jun 2025
Death and Discretion: How Governments Track Without Consent
The death of Albert Ojwang (31) in police custody has reignited public anger, especially among the youth, just as the country approaches the first anniversary of the historic June 25, 2024, protests, ...
13 Jun 2025
Breaking the Consensus: The Issues with the EU’s High-Risk AML Classification of Kenya
In global financial governance, timing and process are everything. Institutions tasked with regulating the cross-border financial system, policing illicit financial flows, and safeguarding financial i...
5 Jun 2025
Imported Vehicle Duty Reforms and Questions on Tax Transparency
A recent shift in Kenya’s vehicle taxation policy is beginning to reshape the cost of importing second-hand cars, leaving importers and consumers bracing for impact. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA...
5 Jun 2025
Atomic Ambitions: Kenya’s Nuclear Energy Plan
Kenya is exploring nuclear energy as a long-term solution for base-load electricity generation and is on track to establish its first nuclear power plant. This is an avenue to realise the Vision 2030 ...
30 May 2025
The Green Mandate: A Sustainability Wake Up Call
Kenya’s financial sector is at a tipping point. Climate change is no longer a looming threat. It is an immediate crisis. Once considered peripheral, climate change is now a central risk to economic ...
30 May 2025
The Silencing of Koimburi
Just days after President William Ruto vowed there would be no more extrajudicial killings or State-sponsored abductions under his administration, Juja Member of Parliament (MP) George Koimburi was fo...
30 May 2025
Finance Bill, 2025, Submissions: Calling for Tax Certainty
Every year, the Finance Bill comes around, and for many of us, it feels like it’s written in a language only lawyers, accountants and economists can understand. But behind the big words and legal ja...
23 May 2025
Rethinking Intellectual Property in a Digital World
In an age where ideas travel faster than the law, the question of who owns what has never been more urgent or complex. The borderless, restless, and endlessly duplicable digital economy has unsettled ...
23 May 2025
The Delicate Art of Diplomatic Protection for Citizens Across Borders
The recent detention of Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan journalist Agather Atuhaire in Tanzania offers a compelling case study in modern diplomatic challenges. The two, along with other Ke...
16 May 2025
Where is the Fiscal Focus on Kenyans’ Pain Points?
On April 29, 2025, the Draft Finance Bill, 2025, was tabled before the National Assembly. The Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula, referred the Bill to the Finance and National Planning Committee for review a...
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