John Musingo

You can’t be cancelling Ombachi and Bien over standards and accountability, then turn around and blindly support a “united opposition” filled with the same old political baggage. That contradiction is absurd. You cannot demand integrity, discipline, and moral consistency from artists and public figures, yet completely suspend those standards when it comes to the people seeking power over millions. Hold your leaders to the same standard you expect from everyone else, otherwise it’s not principle, don’t use emotions to think.

The Finance Bill, 2026 was published on 30th April and is now before Parliament and every Kenyan deserves to know what is in it. The government targets Ksh3.63 trillion in revenue for 2026/27 and a wider budget deficit of 5.3% of GDP in the 2026/27 fiscal year (July-June) up from 4.7% in 2025/26. These are not unreasonable fiscal objectives but the manner in which the burden of achieving them is distributed is a cause for serious concern. On tax filing timelines, the Bill moves the income tax return deadline to April 30th which is two months earlier than the current June 30th and compresses nil return filing to January 31st. This reduces the time available for audit completion, cash flow planning and compliance. For small businesses and individual traders, this is not administrative reform. It is an additional compliance cost they can ill afford. On mitumba, the Bill inserts a new Section 12H into the Income Tax Act which deems profit at 5% of customs value payable upfront before goods are released by KRA as a final tax. A trader importing a bale worth Ksh1 million pays Ksh50,000 regardless of whether they make a profit or a loss. I cannot in good conscience describe this as equitable.  The Bill increases residential rental income tax from 7.5% to 10%. Absent a serious enforcement framework, this will drive non-compliance rather than revenue. The government must fix the enforcement gap before it increases the rate. One without the other is burden-shifting. On digital financial services, the Bill removes existing VAT exemptions on money transfers and payment processing. These are the tools of financial inclusion that millions of Kenyans including the very people this government says it wants to reach rely on daily. Making them more expensive will not serve the objective of a broader tax base.  By including interchange and merchant service fees within the definition of management or professional fees for withholding tax purposes, the Bill introduces a compliance burden into automated banking processes. That burden will be passed on to businesses and ultimately to consumers. The amendment to Section 24 of the Income Tax Act empowers KRA to deem at least 60% of a company's undistributed income as dividends for tax purposes. This fails to account for legitimate decisions on reinvestment, working capital and business growth. It is a retrogressive measure that sends the wrong signal to the investors Kenya needs. A 25% excise duty on telephones for cellular and wireless networks is proposed. A phone is not a luxury. It is how Kenyans bank, communicate, conduct business and access government services. Parliament must interrogate this carefully. On PAYE, Kenyans were led to expect relief and a restructuring of the tax bands to ease the burden on salaried workers. That proposal does not appear in this Bill. That is not a minor omission. An explanation is owed to every employed Kenyan who was waiting for it. To be fair, the Bill is not without merit. The reduction of corporate tax for non-resident companies from 37.5% to 30% improves our investment climate. The extension of the tax amnesty to cover liabilities up to 31st December 2025 provides a genuine and welcome pathway to compliance. VAT exemptions on electric buses, bicycles, dialysers, animal feed raw materials and PPP infrastructure are sensible measures. The clarity introduced on trust taxation ensuring beneficiaries are not taxed on income already taxed at the trust level and the recognition of gratuity contributions as exempt income are also steps in the right direction. Be that as it may, we cannot afford a repeat of June 2024. Parliament must discharge its oversight role with the seriousness this moment demands. They should not merely rubber-stamp what the Treasury has placed before it. Every clause must be scrutinised. Every punitive or ambiguous provision must be rejected or amended. #FinanceBill2026 #PublicParticipation

@KenyaPower_Care @MuchiriAngeline Everyone is telling you that its in Mwimuto-Wangige area. By now you have received enough reports to know where the issue is. This is the 4th time this week that power has dissapeared. Each time you give hese same technical responses but never fix the issue.

@catheri22906563 Wondering whether we have been forcefully put in a load shedding streak and we don't know. How is it that it's been happening everyday of this week???

No lights in mwimuto kibichiku area for 3 days whats happening??? Kindly assist@KenyaPower_Care

@Kenyapoweercare Second day in a row that we are having power outage at Mwimuto area. We can’t keep complaining for months on end without a solution.

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I am seeking proper instructions to go to court & challenge the 16% VAT on LPG introduced by the Finance Bill, 2020; I've litigated such issues before in 2018-2019; the housing levy and the increased tax on petroleum products. RT widely.

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@KenyaPower_Care the audacity you have to tell me that nothing can be done to solve my situation tonight and still have the guts to say you have a 24hr team that will attend to me in the morning doesn’t make sense to me. I thought 24hrs means round the clock not from 8am to 5pm😶

@KenyaPower_Care so after telling me to wait for 4hrs now you tell me nothing can happen at this time even after you assured me that someone will come check out the electricity situation in my house. 🤔🤬

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@ElayneOkaya We need to do a chapati off. There’s a big difference between thick and fat no?