@dklaston Yes, I'd buy one. The G-Wagon is one of the few vehicles that's both a status symbol and a legitimate off-roader.
Diesel if I'm paying for fuel. Petrol if money truly isn't a problem.
@dklaston@ThrillaRilla369 Your childhood entertainment was a pink dog with anxiety and a family driving stone-age cars with their feet. Ancient behavior. 😅
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Those calling for a cut in the Road Maintenance Levy to lower fuel prices are missing the point. The problem is not the levy itself, but the fact that almost 50% of it has already been securitized. Under Uhuru, the RML was KES 18 per litre, generating KES 86B annually to maintain 21,826 km of paved roads at about KES 3.9M per km.
This administration increased the levy to KES 25 per litre, pushing collections to KES 115B a year. But in February 2025, the government securitized KES 7 of that levy for the next 10 years. Then in November 2025, Cabinet approved securitizing an additional KES 5 without parliamentary approval, prompting MPs to call it a constitutional overreach.
That means out of the KES 115B collected for road maintenance every year, KES 47B now goes to servicing debt, leaving only KES 68B to maintain 25,412 km of paved roads. That translates to KES 2.7M per km today, down sharply from KES 3.9M per km under Uhuru.
Fellow Kenyans, the levy is unlikely to come down because it has already been pledged away for a decade. So as the potholes get bigger, you either work harder, or steal harder, and buy yourself a bigger car.
How do we cure abuse of eTIMS credit notes?
Last week, we were preparing 2025 income tax return for a small hardware store.
They had bought wood worth 400K.
• Proper eTIMS invoices were issued
• Payments were made
• Transactions were complete
Kumbe, later, the vendor turned rogue. He went back into the system and cancelled all the invoices.
By issuing credit notes.
The hardware owner was not notified by KRA. No email. No SMS alert. No nothing.
He only discovered it when we were preparing the return.
He asked me: is there a problem?
I showed him the impact.
• Bro, that 400K expense is gone. You cannot deduct it. You now have to pay 30% tax on it. That is 120K extra tax.
He froze. Then immediately bacame thirsty. Then started drinking water like a man who has just seen his future.
Now think about this. He has:
• A legit purchase
• A legit payment
• A legit supplier
But, no valid eTIMS invoices
So in the eyes of KRA, those expenses do not exist.
This left me seriously wondering:
• Even if KRA sends you a notification that your supplier has issued a credit note, apart from feeling bad, what can you actually do about it?
Because:
• The seller does not need your approval
• The seller does not need to justify the reversal
• The seller is the king here.
He can simply wake up one morning. Cancel your invoice. And disappear.
And you,
• You lose the deduction
• You pay extra tax
• You carry the loss
How should eTIMS credit notes be designed? What is your suggestion?
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