Abraham WANGILA

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@ggiste Rent ya 60k is the obvious adjustment here, tafuta mahali ya 20k now that you have a car. The 40k can easily accumulate to something or even better entertainment

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@USForeignAssist This is another way of saying you are colluding with known corrupt politicians in corrupting the judicial system to expose Kenyans to Ebola

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@sholard_mancity @JalangoMwenyewe ajifunze kitu

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@otienowill We do not

[Faith Odhiambo @FaithOdhiambo8]

The Finance Bill, 2026 was published on 30th April and is now before Parliament and every Kenyan deserves to know what is in it.

The government targets Ksh3.63 trillion in revenue for 2026/27 and a wider budget deficit of 5.3% of GDP in the 2026/27 fiscal year (July-June) up from 4.7% in 2025/26. These are not unreasonable fiscal objectives but the manner in which the burden of achieving them is distributed is a cause for serious concern.

On tax filing timelines, the Bill moves the income tax return deadline to April 30th which is two months earlier than the current June 30th and compresses nil return filing to January 31st. This reduces the time available for audit completion, cash flow planning and compliance. For small businesses and individual traders, this is not administrative reform. It is an additional compliance cost they can ill afford.

On mitumba, the Bill inserts a new Section 12H into the Income Tax Act which deems profit at 5% of customs value payable upfront before goods are released by KRA as a final tax. A trader importing a bale worth Ksh1 million pays Ksh50,000 regardless of whether they make a profit or a loss. I cannot in good conscience describe this as equitable.

 The Bill increases residential rental income tax from 7.5% to 10%. Absent a serious enforcement framework, this will drive non-compliance rather than revenue. The government must fix the enforcement gap before it increases the rate. One without the other is burden-shifting.

On digital financial services, the Bill removes existing VAT exemptions on money transfers and payment processing. These are the tools of financial inclusion that millions of Kenyans including the very people this government says it wants to reach rely on daily. Making them more expensive will not serve the objective of a broader tax base.

 By including interchange and merchant service fees within the definition of management or professional fees for withholding tax purposes, the Bill introduces a compliance burden into automated banking processes. That burden will be passed on to businesses and ultimately to consumers.

The amendment to Section 24 of the Income Tax Act empowers KRA to deem at least 60% of a company's undistributed income as dividends for tax purposes. This fails to account for legitimate decisions on reinvestment, working capital and business growth. It is a retrogressive measure that sends the wrong signal to the investors Kenya needs.

A 25% excise duty on telephones for cellular and wireless networks is proposed. A phone is not a luxury. It is how Kenyans bank, communicate, conduct business and access government services. Parliament must interrogate this carefully.

On PAYE, Kenyans were led to expect relief and a restructuring of the tax bands to ease the burden on salaried workers. That proposal does not appear in this Bill. That is not a minor omission. An explanation is owed to every employed Kenyan who was waiting for it.

To be fair, the Bill is not without merit. The reduction of corporate tax for non-resident companies from 37.5% to 30% improves our investment climate. The extension of the tax amnesty to cover liabilities up to 31st December 2025 provides a genuine and welcome pathway to compliance. VAT exemptions on electric buses, bicycles, dialysers, animal feed raw materials and PPP infrastructure are sensible measures. The clarity introduced on trust taxation ensuring beneficiaries are not taxed on income already taxed at the trust level and the recognition of gratuity contributions as exempt income are also steps in the right direction.

Be that as it may, we cannot afford a repeat of June 2024. Parliament must discharge its oversight role with the seriousness this moment demands. They should not merely rubber-stamp what the Treasury has placed before it. Every clause must be scrutinised. Every punitive or ambiguous provision must be rejected or amended.

#FinanceBill2026 #PublicParticipation

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@DonaldBKipkorir Very honest. Impressive. I wish the tutam choir would disclose interests in this manner. We will not have a people that think certain politicians are actually popular in any way other than the efforts of those they have paid

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@AokoOtieno_ Easy, postpone the rally on short notice then announce another one and postpone that as well. Then eventually do it kama pesa ya goons imepungua

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@FatrasBa @gabrieloguda Ogopa mungu bana

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@Collofadhil @JaphethOtieno01 @grok Unachanga kwa number ya beneficiary, Eric pesa yake hutoka from the publicity and branding of the thing

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@gladyswanga Ungewachia mtu mwingine to complain about tribalism

[Edwin Sifuna @edwinsifuna]

All the ways you can be part of the movement….

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Happy Friday!

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@OngiliK @CopShakurkihara You think you can just hire a bodanoda and go shoot an MP in town mkuu?

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@pksalasya If you want a political future, this battle does not benefit you

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@MigunaMiguna Senile Oburu is your man I suppose

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@AnuarSaddat @MigunaMiguna "We cannot remove Ruto to replace him with another Ruto" is the NIS campaign against the much more popular and likely winner that is Matiang'i. The other strategy is to position and fund weak candidates like Kalonzo and Gachagua.

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@ahmednasirlaw If Ruto didn't augment Uhuru's weaknesses in running the country, Uhuru wouldn't even be relevant today. But now the country even misses the Uhuru administration - nobody thought it was possible. That's how bad Ruto has done.

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@_KithureKindiki And yet they will still get less money than they did before Ruto took power

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@primemediakenya Where will we have found the super senator @CrystalAsige if this even made sense? Nonsense!

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@Abdinassir69878 @ahmednasirlaw My brother, the people out there in the north are suffering. The leaders should be leading this debate in a direction that's beneficial - doing better for the people. Not hiding under partisan politics and name calling.

[Abraham WANGILA @Awangila87]

@scherargei Sifuna's alleged support for Gachagua has been manufactured by the state and idiots like yourself