Gen Z protests spiked interest in proposed freehold land taxation

Protesters during the Anti-finance bill demonstrations along Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi on June 25, 2024. 

Photo credit: Billy Ogada | Nation Media Group

Last week, Generation Z took to the streets to protest the Finance Bill. Besides forcing a rejection of the proposed law, the protests informed other unexpected outputs. As I went through routine updates on the demonstrations, I hardly expected to stumble upon matters land. But I did!

Posts began popping up on my X (formerly Twitter) timeline attributing a proposal to slap an annual levy to freehold land to the Finance Bill.

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