Tax compliance is every Kenyan’s patriotic duty

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS) inspects bales of counterfeit juice impounded during a crack down at a wholesale in Bomet town.

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Central to the operation of a State, lies its tax system and tax administration. Therefore, as a common denominator taxation ranks high among the certainties of the universe. In the words of Benjamin Franklin, tax is as certain as death.

Affirming this, a kindred mind, Seth Lloyd, paralleled Benjamin Franklin’s certainty of taxes and death to the second law of thermodynamics. In it, he postulates that, despite all these certainties seemingly transforming money, life and energy into nothingness, there are some fringe benefits.

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