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You can’t avoid stamp duty

We have identified a good family house and intend to buy it before Christmas this year. We do not have a problem with the Sh8 million purchase price but were taken aback that we must pay tax to the Kenya Revenue Authority Sh320,000 as stamp duty fees. How sensible is this?

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