Kenya to raise DST from 1.5% to 3% despite OECD agreement for 2023 global corporate tax reforms The Kenyan 2022 Finance Bill plans to raise the country’s Digital Services Tax from 1.5% to 3%. The Organisation for Cooperation and Development, which has coordinated a global settlement
Kenya continues with its DST despite OECD agreement for 2023 global corporate tax reforms The latest Kenyan Finance Act has limited the application of the 1.5% Digital Services Tax (DST) to non-resident digital marketplaces. DST came into effect on 1 January 2021. This is in
Tax registers with live reporting to the Revenue Authority The Kenya Revenue Authority KRA started in August 2021 the operations of e-invoicing cash registers under which taxpayers to maintain a tax register that is able to transmit tax invoice data to the Kenya Revenue Authority
Kenya obliges providers and marketplaces facilitating the sale of electronic or digital services to charge and collect Value Added Tax on their sales to local consumers. Sellers have faced this requirement since 2 September 2013. The (Digital Marketplace Supply) Regulations 2020 confirmed the liabilities on
Kenya has returned its standard VAT rate to 16% from 14% on 1 January 2021. The rate was temporarily reduced to 14% on 1 April 2020 to help support businesses and consumers as the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. The African country also reduced its
