How much of your salary or company earnings are paid as tax? Divide that shilling figure by 130 and that’s the number of kilogrammes of unga (maize flour) your own direct tax payment will subsidise this next four weeks: maybe as many as 200kg if you’re a way-above-average earner, on a gross of more than Sh100,000 a month.
Yet 200kg of subsidised unga is enough to feed just 15 people for the month. And, even more, unfortunately, we only have around 80,000 Kenyans earning more than Sh100,000 a month who are paying taxes.
