Kindly stop misleading.

If he pays VAT, chances are he also claims VAT - called input tax, therefore the net effect is strictly not 16%.

I'm not aware of any service that has excise duty levied on it.

@GG,i thought he clarified it was about employment?

@Mainat, your UK figures are inaccurate. Employment income always starts at 20% for anything below GBP 37,400 p.a. Only savings income are subject to the 10% and only if below about GBP 2,500.

The easiest way to estimate your Kenyan taxes is (Salary multiply by 30%) Minus 5,000. The margin of error is about 0.2%. For 1M this comes to about 295,000 per month while the actual figure is 293,872.



@user, you haven't felt taxation until you pay taxes in UK. I wonder why they don't of themselves as communists.

That is where we differ. I have a problem paying anything above 10% tax especially when I know that nearly 80% of the budget goes to recurrent expenditure.. to pay salaries for people who do not produce anything.. New governor, his secretary, his guard at work, his guard at home, his tealady at work, the KYM who rushes his suits to the dhobi... yaani by the time you're done..

Argggh!! I still don't understand how people could have voted for this new constitution...

On a slightly different tangent, would it not be prudent for say any one earning above a net of kshs 200k be charged 40% and the rest 30% and those earning a net of 50k and below be charged 20%.
Anything above 500k should be at 50% (do i hear mps say aye)!!

So my question is would this aleviate the feeling of 'un-equalness' across people earning differently??