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<\/a><\/p>\nEmployed Kenyans will be\u00a0deducted 1.5% from their monthly salaries to help finance a new low cost house project initiated by president Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0new law will compel salaried Kenyans to pay\u00a0to the National Housing Development Fund to finance the multi-billion government housing project.<\/p>\n
This comes just after the government introduced 8% tax on fuel that saw the price of a\u00a0litre of petrol, diesel and kerosene to go up drastically.<\/p>\n
As if that’s not enough, Uhuru also recommended excise duty on bank and mobile phone money transactions and internet data services.<\/p>\n
Mobile phone transaction excise duty will shoot up from 10% to 20%, excise duty on bank transactions will increase from 12% to 20% and the cost of internet data services also goes up to 15%.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Finance Bill, 2018 which Uhuru signed into law on September 21st is the genesis of this heavy taxation. It introduced a bundle of new taxes that will see Kenyans pay more for\u00a0basically everything.<\/p>\n
KTN anchor\u00a0Lindah Oguttu reacted angrily to the new monthly deductions from salaried Kenyans. She blasted the\u00a01.5% deduction which she termed as broad daylight theft since Kenyans who are deducted have no say over\u00a0Uhuru’s housing project.<\/p>\n
“Yaaaani I dont even know what to feel….So my money will be deducted….for a housing project that I have no say over….with almost NIL probability that I will actually get to own one of those houses…..all these at ZERO option…….and am supposed to act like its ok? Nkt,” Lindah Oguttu tweeted.<\/p>\n