Withholding tax hurts Kenya’s creative economy

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Dear Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General; You assume office at a critical moment for our country, when revenue mobilisation, economic growth, job creation and private-sector competitiveness must work together.

I write on behalf of stakeholders across Kenya’s advertising, marketing and creative industries to draw your attention to an issue that is having an increasingly significant impact on the sector: the five percent withholding tax applied to the sector.

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