Tax burden: Navigating the shift to price-first economy

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A persistently high tax burden on many households in Kenya has led consumers to turn to creative ways to stretch the shilling.

One familiar strategy is downtrading, where consumers get aggressive at value hunting, often focusing only on the basic functional properties of the products that they use on a daily basis, to guarantee that they get the lowest prices.

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