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Consumers’ brace for higher charges as Kenya ups tax on money transfers

By Jevans Nyabiage

Transaction costs for mobile money transfer services could go up by 10 per cent as Treasury moved to impose a 10 per cent levy to finance ballooning recurrent spending.

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