MPs approve tax-free deal for Japanese firms, expats
Thursday May 20 2021
By EDWIN MUTAI
Summary
Parliament has exempted Japanese companies, consultants and employees undertaking local projects funded through grants from Tokyo from paying tax.
The exemption is in respect of income accruing in or derived from Kenya in the projects under the financing agreements signed between Nairobi and Tokyo.
Parliament has exempted Japanese companies, consultants and employees undertaking local projects funded through grants from Tokyo from paying tax.
The exemption is in respect of income accruing in or derived from Kenya in the projects under the financing agreements signed between Nairobi and Tokyo.
THE STANDARD By
Dominic Omondi |
March 17th 2021 at 09:24:44 GMT +0300
CS Ukur Yattani (PHOTO: FILE)
Japanese workers and companies will be laughing all the way to the bank after the government exempted them from paying income tax for projects valued at Sh328 billion.
In a legal notice, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani directed that the income that these businesses and workers earned from 15 projects will be exempted from income tax.
Mr Yatani said this was according to Section 13(2) of the Income Tax. “Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning directs that the income which accrued in or was derived from Kenya by Japanese companies, Japanese consultants and Japanese employees involved in the projects…. shall be exempt from income tax.” read part of the notice that was issued by Yatani on February 26, 2021.