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New tax bad for home ownership

Kenya: Real estate buyers will have to dig deeper into their pockets when capital gains tax takes effect on January 1, 2015.

Parliament recently passed an amendment to the Finance Bill 2014 that proposed the levying of a five per cent tax on proceeds realised from the sale of property. The law provides imposition of capital gains tax by amending the Eighth Schedule of the Income Tax Act.

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