New taxes to change Kenyan tech scene in 2025

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Kenyans will in 2025 have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for multiple technology products after the introduction of a raft of new taxes that is set to increase the prices of the goods and services in the industry.

Some of the taxes are not entirely new, but renewed measures to enforce them will make it harder to evade or avoid them, forcing Kenyans to pay more for the products. Here are the taxes and how they might affect you:

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.