Close shave for beauty industry in tax drop plan

Tabitha Njoki, a wigs trader in downtown Nairobi on June 15, 2023. PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG

Consumers and small businesses in the beauty industry have been handed a reprieve after Parliament dropped a new tax set to dim the glamour of the growing market.

In new measures under the Finance Bill 2023, the government was seeking to introduce a five percent excise duty on human hair, eyelashes, switches, and artificial nails, in a move that would raise the prices of these beauty products whose usage is on the rise.

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