EDITORIAL: Impose stiffer penalties on telcos, compel them to compensate consumers Revelations that three quarters of the complaints that consumers made over mobile network services between July and September last year were unresolved are a wake-up call to the Communications...
EDITORIAL: Look beyond friendly taxes to win investors Kenya should look beyond offering preferential taxes in the push to attract more investors. While it is a welcome proposal for the country to eye an increased licence period for Special Economic...
EDITORIAL: Implement food safety measures as a priority The milk safety partnership between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Bio Food Products is a timely reminder for Kenya to act fast and secure its agricultural...
EDITORIAL: Review the levies for affordable electricity The cost of electricity in Kenya remains stubbornly high despite recent moves by the government to try to lower it. This month, electricity bills will rise by between 3.3 percent and 16.5...
EDITORIAL: Embrace tax systems that grow compliance While every beginning has teething problems, we find the unending hitches with the Kenya Revenue Authority’s new systems unbelievable and unacceptable as has just happened with the electronic tax...
EDITORIAL: Act on mobile money loopholes to end fraud The warning by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) of the rising risk of fraud from remote registration of mobile money customers should be taken seriously. With the mobile money industry’s enormous...
EDITORIAL: Market efficiencies key to better farm outcomes With the government now eyeing a share of proceeds from the sale of farm produce, ensuring the existence of efficient markets is crucial to ensure better outcomes for farmers and the State...
Address complaints on e-travel authorisation The decision by Kenya to go visa-free for travellers hasn’t elicited the kind of excitement that the authorities had anticipated. Several people have raised complaints about the costs...
Look beyond CDF in budget funds release Lawmakers should look beyond the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) in the push for timely release of budget funds. MPs drawn from both the ruling and opposition, have...
EDITORIAL: Assist more youth, women to get tenders The jump in government tenders awarded to women, youth and persons with disabilities is encouraging and demonstrates that the State is working on economic empowerment of the special interest groups.
EDITORIAL: Don’t forget Grade E candidates in plans The 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education results were one for the books. For the first time, the number of candidates who met minimum university qualification crossed the 200,000...
EDITORIAL: Keep the pledge on austerity this year The trilemma for nearly every developing economy is how to deliver more development while at the same time taxing people less and not plunging the country into a debt hole. Kenya’s situation is...
EDITORIAL: Support private sector to create quality jobs Confronted with a high unemployment rate, the government has prioritised job creation under its Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda, putting particular emphasis on the numbers.
EDITORIAL: Put citizens’ welfare at centre of fiscal policy In 2023, Kenyans have weathered tough economic conditions caused by both local and external shocks. Higher taxes, a weaker currency and elevated inflation due to rising food and fuel costs are...
EDITORIAL: Eurobond payment uncertainty bad for the Kenyan economy Kenya will not pay the first instalment of its $2.0 billion (Sh309.9 billion) Eurobond loan in advance this month, as earlier planned, with the government now awaiting advice from the lead...
EDITORIAL: Implement proposals to improve airport services The recommendations by the committee formed by Transport Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen on rehabilitation of defective runways, installing new backup generators and replacing aged and...
EDITORIAL: Address EAC states trade rows urgently The disclosures by the East African Community Secretariat in its Trade and Investment Report (2022) that member states are trading more with countries outside the bloc owing to persistent trade...
EDITORIAL: Don't drop road safety guard ahead of New Year Hotels in the popular tourist destinations such as the coast and Naivasha reported increased bookings as did public transport operators.
EDITORIAL: Treasury plan to raise core capital welcome The Treasury did not indicate to what level the core capital will be raised.
EDITORIAL: Shift to solar should serve as wake-up call The growing shift to solar power systems by heavy-consuming industrialists sends a key message: Need for cheaper reliable power.
EDITORIAL: Simplified invoicing tax system welcome It is commendable for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to develop a simplified solution for small businesses to comply with tax requirements.
EDITORIAL: Cost of doing business threatening economy By last week, 12 listed firms had issued profit warnings in a quick succession that should worry the government whose brief it is to nurture enterprises to grow.
EDITORIAL: Stroke deaths call for more research, staff Data shows that stroke is a leading killer in Kenya and continues to send more people to early graves due to late detection.
EDITORIAL: Use Sh100,000 pay data to fix tax gaps The share of workers earning more than Sh100,000 a month has once again brought to the fore the problem of tax evasion and Kenya’s income inequality. es of workers.
EDITORIAL: Reignite NSE listing with right incentives One of the consequences of the prolonged bear run at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has been a failure to attract quality listings in the past decade.
