Finance Bill 2026 is asking for permission to kill local businesses.
Right now, if your company makes profits, you can choose to:
• Reinvest profits back to business
• Or distribute it as dividends to shareholders
Finance Bill 2026 wants that removed. And be replaced by one hard rule. That,
• At least 60% of your profits can be treated as dividends by KRA. Even if you did NOT distribute anything.
“At least” means minimum.
KRA can push it to: 70%, 80% even 90% if they don't like you.
Read that again.
Meaning:
• If you reinvest all your profits in your business, KRA will says:
- Noo. At least 60% must be distributed to shareholders. And since you didn’t, we will assume you did, and demand dividend tax from you.
As a result:
• You are taxed on money you never paid out
• 5%–15% withholding tax on “deemed” dividends
Who is in cooked?
• SMEs reinvesting profits to expand
• Manufacturing businesses expanding
• Real estate firms with paper profits but no cash
Who is safe?
• SEZ companies
• NIFC companies
• REITs
Because their dividends are already exempt.
But for everyone else, this is a forced dividend rule.
The govt is no longer waiting for you to run your business. They want KRA to run it for you.
Is this fair taxation? Or forced extraction?
Cornelius Chepsoi, I am a happy man listening to such an intelligent fellow talk. Murkomen & Co should stop tribalizing serious matters affecting our country courtesy of their rogue administration. It's not about Kikuyus but Kenyans at large!!
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu says she was not aware of the Tanga oil refinery announcement by President Ruto.
She questioned him over why the announcement was made without her knowledge.
Kenya is one big CONFLICT OF INTEREST + POOR GOVERNANCE STUDY:
1. MCAs' companies do all the work in the Wards;
2. MPs' companies do all CDF work;
3. Governors' companies do all the work in the Counties;
4. The President and his CS companies do all the national contracts.
So medics are being told to reuse gloves because the whole hospital has just 1 box of gloves and the box should last them a whole week. Ladies and gents a box of Gloves is retailing at 450shillings. Meanwhile your President is spending 17 Billion (42 Million Daily) giving people handouts at Statehouse. NKT!!!
Ruto wants to create a nation of maids and bus drivers. Not scientists, innovators, philosophers, writers, world class entrepreneurs. He will be remembered for destroying a country for MONEY.
JUST IN: Iran’s new supreme leader apparently approved the ceasefire from a hospital bed in Qom where US-Israeli intelligence says he is unconscious and unable to participate in any decision-making. Few hours later, IRGC cluster warheads were still detonating over Israeli and gulf cities. Not many in the Western press have connected these two facts, and the connection rewrites everything the market just priced.
The system that accepted the ceasefire and the system that violated it are not the same system. That is the point of Mosaic Defence.
Twenty years ago, the IRGC restructured itself into 31 independent provincial commands, each with its own missile arsenal, drone fleet, Basij militia integration, and pre-delegated launch authority. The doctrine was designed for exactly this scenario: supreme leader incapacitated, central communications degraded, conventional military infrastructure destroyed. Every provincial commander can execute offensive operations without a phone call to Tehran. The architecture was tested in war games, refined after watching Saddam’s centralised command collapse in 48 hours in 2003, and activated the moment Ali Khamenei was killed on February 28th.
The senior IRGC military council that approved the ceasefire through the Supreme National Security Council, citing Mojtaba’s name for domestic legitimacy, does not control the launch decisions of every provincial unit. It cannot. That is by design. The field commanders who fired at Israel and the UAE after the announcement were not violating orders. They were following standing pre-delegated authority that exists precisely so that operations continue when the centre cannot communicate, or chooses not to. The ceasefire was a political act by the council in Tehran. The missile launches were a military act by autonomous field units in the provinces. Both happened simultaneously because the architecture permits it.
This is what the market failed to price when WTI crashed nine percent.
The nine percent drop assumed a unified Iranian state that accepted a ceasefire and would enforce it across all domains. What exists instead is a fragmented command structure where political leadership in Tehran can sign agreements that provincial military commanders are neither required nor expected to follow in real time. The Mosaic Defence that kept the regime alive through 39 days of the most intense bombing campaign since 2003 is the same architecture that makes ceasefire enforcement structurally unreliable.
Israel understood this immediately. The IDF did not pause. It continued eliminating Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, struck a weapons crossing south of the Litani River, and cited Iranian violations as justification for ongoing raids on Iranian targets. Netanyahu’s calculus is transparent: if the adversary’s own military architecture cannot enforce a ceasefire, then the ceasefire does not constrain the defender.
The molecule thesis absorbs this development without modification. If the ceasefire holds, the crackers are still rubble and reconstruction takes years. If the ceasefire fragments because autonomous IRGC units continue launching, the war resumes and the deficit deepens. Both branches produce the same terminal condition for petrochemical supply. The human-chain game theory from yesterday and the Mosaic Defence autonomy from tonight converge on the same conclusion: the crisis duration is structurally guaranteed by the adversary’s own defensive architecture, regardless of what any council signs in Tehran or any diplomat negotiates in Islamabad.
The supreme leader is unconscious. The missiles are not.
https://t.co/0fIdGsM5qH
Well , I don’t think spending 42B on Bomas of Kenya when a cancer treatment machine at KNH is broken down is wisdom. Government must prioritize
1. Health
2. Manufacturing / agriculture
3. Education