Uhuru slaps M-Pesa with 66pc mobile cash tax rise

The government has been encouraging cashless payments to improve security and reduce fraud. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The cost of sending money through mobile services such as Safaricom’s #ticker:SCOM M-Pesa will increase further after President Uhuru Kenyatta proposed to raise tax on the services from 12 per cent to 20 per cent.

Mr Kenyatta is targeting products like mobile money that are consumed by a vast majority of Kenyans in an attempt spread the burden of taxation.

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