Why firms are headed straight into tax storm

The assumption is that if a country wants to become developed, it must take steps to improve and enhance its tax effort statistics and numbers.

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The new tax laws – assented into law by retired president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 – were perhaps meant to shore up revenue collections.

Officially known as Finance Act 2021, the law will see to it that businesses and companies pay more taxes by denying them tax deductions on excess interests paid on debt acquired for organisational operations.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.