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Banks start enforcing 16pc VAT on digital payment charges

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- Businesses and households face higher digital payment costs after banks and fintech companies began adding a 16 percent value added tax (VAT) to fees charged for processing electro... Read More


KRA eyes M-Pesa invoices for small and micro traders

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Safaricom are in talks to allow M-Pesa to issue electronic tax invoices on behalf of small businesses, making it easier for micro traders to s... Read More


Olympia Capital share jumps 198pc after Ndindi Nyoro deal

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- Olympia Capital Holdings share price tripled at the close of trading yesterday on the day the investment firm reported a further profit drop and purchase of a 9.7 percent stake by ... Read More


KRA blocks imports without local marine insurance cover

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- Cargo imports without local marine insurance cover will not be cleared by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) from November 1, 2026, as the government aims to retain billions of shil... Read More


Flower growers seek further pause of controversial factory levy

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- The Kenya Flower Council has asked the High Court to extend orders suspending the implementation of a new standards levy, warning that its members risk losing export contracts, mar... Read More


Turn tech layoffs into African opportunity

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- Every redundancy announcement eventually leaves the business pages and enters somebody's home. There is a conversation with a spouse, a school fee payment to reconsider, and the di... Read More


Ex-Savannah Cement owner seeks jail for DCI boss, DPP in Sh4.5bn row

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- A former Savannah Cement shareholder wants the High Court to jail the Director of Criminal Investigations and Director of Public Prosecutions for allegedly defying an order to rele... Read More


Safaricom share in economy hits Sh1.24trn as it sustains 1.4m jobs

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- Safaricom created an estimated Sh1.247 trillion in value for the Kenyan economy in the year ended March 2026, with its spending and supply chains supporting more than 1.4 million a... Read More


Succession and legacy: The rules that saved Sarova family empire

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- After losing his father and four other close family members in separate road accidents within 11 months, Saveer Vohra, CEO of the Vohra Group, which runs the Sarova chain of hotels... Read More


Are you a creator or consumer of value?

Nairobi, Oct. 28 -- "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted" --Albert Einstein. Does everything that you value have a price? I... Read More