How Kenya is juggling with digital tax rules

Kenya began collecting the digital service tax (DST) on January 1, 2021, targeting revenues earned by digital service providers including US tech giants Google, Netflix, Meta, Twitter and Microsoft.

But the taxman now finds itself in a dilemma two years later, faced with two different models of computing the tax amid growing pressure to abandon its hardline stance and join other countries that have adopted a globally negotiated unified solution.