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Poor over-taxed but rich stash away Sh100 billion

Kenya: The National Treasury should rein in large corporations and high net worth individuals who escaped paying taxes estimated at about Sh100 billion over the past three years.

Surely it cannot be right for the government to continue levying punitive taxes on its poorer citizens while retaining obvious loopholes in its tax code through which the rich and their companies either escape paying taxes altogether or pay token amounts.

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