KWS officer Evans Kimaiyo has today seen bad things at the Nakuru Magistrates Court.
Evans Kimaiyo is the forth KWS officer admitted to his own defense in the matter of Brian Odhiambo.
Kimaiyo tried lying to the court that he was not present when Brian was abducted,
But upon being shown forensic analysis showing his phone at the exact place Brian was abducted,
He started stammering, sweating and asking for drinking water.
At the end of his defense, just like Alexander Lorogoi and Mr Ochieng,
Evans Kimaiyo has also pointed fingers at senior sergeant Francis Wachira as the man responsible for everything.
Bwana mahali tumefika, Kuna wanaume watakula maharagwe.
#JusticeForBrianOdhiambo #EndAbductionsKe
Kenya has introduced a new 25% tax on software subscriptions.
One of the principles of a good tax system is simplicity.
Taxes should be easy to understand. Easy to comply with. And inexpensive to administer.
Finance Act 2026 has introduced new rules for software subscriptions.
• The Act now classifies payments for software licences and software subscriptions as royalties.
- As a result, every time you pay an overseas software company, you are now required to withhold 20% tax and remit it to KRA.
- Then pay the software company the remaining 80%.
For example.
Suppose you pay Google, Amazon or Microsoft USD 1,000 every year for software subscriptions.
The law says:
• Confiscate 20%, USD 200.
• Remit it to KRA.
Then pay the software company USD 800.
There is only one problem, however.
- Software subscriptions are paid either in full or not at all.
Google does not care that you have complied with the Kenyan tax laws. You either pay them 1,000 USD or go home.
So what happens to continue using the software and keep KRA happy?
- You pay Google their full USD 1,000.
In doing so, KRA treats the USD 1,000 as the net amount after withholding tax. That means the original invoice is deemed to have been USD 1,250. How?
Ulikua unaangalia mwalimu na ruler ukiuliza hesabu ya cross multiplication itakusaidia aje maishani. Ona Sasa.
If USD 1,000 = 80%,
Then 100% = USD 1,250.
The withholding tax therefore becomes USD 250.
Meaning:
• Google gets their full USD 1,000.
• Then you go back to your pocket to pay KRA USD 250.
Total software cost = USD 1,250.
In effect, the law has quietly introduced a 25% tax on many software subscriptions.
Even if a small taxpayer genuinely wanted to comply, how exactly are they supposed to comply when the giant software company insists on being paid in full?
This is the new law. Adjust accordingly.
Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.
The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.
So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.
Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.
Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.
The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.
Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.
@Bqmbulu Detachment.
Not being directly affected by a situation, makes it easier for us to shut down emotion and make the best cold and calculated decision we can.
Doing this for ourselves is more difficult since one has to shut down bias, preference, personal feelings, etc.
Eng. Luka Kipchumba Kimeli, DG @KeNHAKenya 🫡
I greet you today in the name of Lord Vishnu.
Not because I suspect you practice Hinduism, but because your fear for Lord Jesus is clearly at zero.
Probably because of Pastor Kanyari and his colleagues who’ve been using that name as a business name for so long you stopped taking it seriously.
But be assured Engineer, He is still very much operational.
I come to you most days NOT because I want your job.
I come because I genuinely believe your employment letter has my name written all over it.
Now look at this image.
That mountain of sand.
Sitting. In the MIDDLE of Waiyaki Way.
Opposite Njuguna’s place.
On one of the busiest highways in East Africa.
Just sitting there for days.
No warning signs.
No barriers. No apology. Just sand.
Proud sand. Unbothered sand.
Engineer, I know your children are abroad. Safe. Warm.
Probably in a country where a civil servant would lose sleep and their job if they left a sand mountain on a highway overnight.
But Wafula from Kangemi?
His children are squeezed in a single room in Kangemi.
They have nowhere to go.
But they want to see him come home.
Not in a casket.
Kamau from Kinoo?
Yes he drinks.
Yes he’s occasionally useless to his family on weekends.
But even his family who have every reason to complain would still rather hear his noise every evening than attend his funeral because a contractor left unmarked sand on Waiyaki Way at night.
This is conduct unbecoming Engineer.
Your equivalent abroad where your children live loses sleep over things like this.
You? You’re sleeping like a man with zero outstanding items.
You and I must agree on one thing today.
Let us hate mediocrity together.
Let us set a bare minimum, you from UoN, me from Kingeero Polytechnic and agree that mountains of sand on highways with zero warnings is below that minimum.
This has to be cleared today.
Not tomorrow. Today!
Your favorite villager. Still watching. Always watching. 👀
The act itself does not move me, but In a world of 8 billion finding the other person who is the same sort of insane to do with with you is terribly romantic
Im just getting to understand this. This lady her name is Halima
DCI arrested her yesterday claiming she has been posting data that is a “threat to national security”
Now the data we are talking about here is President Rutos flight records. Ruto uses private jets
Mark you,This is data that is openly available to everyone globally in almost 18 different apps including Flightradar24
Flightradar24 uses network supplied by over 50,000 ground recievers operated by Aviation companies and individuals.
If you want to know where air force is right now,you can just search it up.
Doesnt @DCI_Kenya know this?
So why are they frustrating this woman
And even the account they claim has been posting such,is not hers.
Its still tweeting even after having her in detention.
Why??
If Ruto does not want to be tracked when hes going to sin abroad,let him use His expensive V8 to go Netherlands.
His Government is ran by illetrates and murderers.
What a Shame on @DCI_Kenya
Release this woman.
The deterioration and fall of Kenya from a barely functioning country to complete systemic ruin and dysfunction has been deeply painful to witness.
Our children do not deserve this.