Market players want Rotich to revoke levy

Nairobi Securities Exchange CEO Geoffrey Odundo. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Returns on pension assets and prices of shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will fall if a proposed law to charge tax on movement of cash in banks is implemented.

Investment banks, brokers and fund managers have warned the proposed change in the law would likely drive foreign investors – who contribute an average of 70 per cent of daily turnover – away to the detriment of trading and price discovery at the NSE.

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