Kibaki left the coffers exactly as he'd found them, after use...? Arsenaliish...empty

Toa goggles bana.....from now on the prices will go up (X+0.16X)......basic understanding of what this means!!!!!

Like Impunity asked, did you really understand MY post? Prices have been moving up over the years without VAT....

So now you put across the question in a better way while you were expecting others to understand the ambigous one..lol.....hiyo swali Rotich can answer.

The problem has always been that too few people are paying direct taxes in the form of income tax. A more radical move would be to lower direct taxes to stimulate consumption and then increase VAT to 18% like our neighbors.

First case Inflation, 2nd case Cesar wants his dues.

If you are to have free maternity and free education, free use of roads (no tolls), free security then you have to pay Cesar or kaisari if you like, apart from that malipo ya deni ni lazima. Lipeni or you adjust your budgets. That 500ml pack of milk must be the tetrapak packed milk, iko cheaper.

And McR.... VAT = X*1.16

Yes I'm in bizna but not sure why VAT cannot be returned back to 18%

I agree with that because everywhere where money changes hands and positive development occurs, there has to be an agreed buy/seller situation. Kenyans are known to be very innovative when it comes to maneuvering out of sticky situations where the end justifies the means. I have seen it. It may look like the government is already collecting too much from us but because some feel hard pressed already, majority are taking shortcuts and evading taxes forcing the government to yank up already existing taxes in a broadcast approach.

So until we are easily convinced into spending more, the government may be playing cat and mouse with the mwananchi. Some guys are really good at tax evasion. Trouble is in order to execute such an undertaking, greed and corruption has to be stamped out first because even those in charge aren't as innocent as it appears.

Baks was very very smart. He went overdrive borrowing both domestically and internationally, postponed the payment of the retirement package through increasing the retirement age of civil servant from the 55 to 60,Increased the wage bill to unmanageable levels just to name but a few.Jubilee has to clear the maturing bonds and bills,pay the bloated wage bill,make the county gavanas happy,pay the retirement dues fourfold since all the 60 years old are retiring starting this year,while still sustaining the huge wage bill.Lazima wanjiku alipe kondi otherwise nikufiam.

Borrowed leveraging on long dated bonds he knew in the short term things will be crazy...it has come to pass itabidi tujikaze nothing more we can do...how much will be the cost of Nation newspaper again?