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Tech firms face higher levies as Kenya plans to double digital service tax

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Tech Crunch | by Annie Njanja


Kenya plans to double the digital service tax (DST) to 3% beginning July this year, as the government taps the growing online economy to increase its domestic revenues and narrow fiscal deficit.

It is expected that the new rates, proposed in the Finance Bill by the country’s Treasury department, will be passed by the lawmakers. The increase comes slightly over a year after the DST came into effect in Kenya, affecting tech companies such as Amazon, Uber, Spotify and Netflix…

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