Speaking in Kiambu National Polytechnic on Budget & Privatisation, National Treasury CS, John Mbadi has termed Kes 30,000/month as "survival salary" that government has "no business taxing". I hope this means Finance Bill 2026 includes a proposal to revise the tax free income threshold (post-personal relief) from kes 24,000... to Kes 30,000. It would be a much needed breather for Kenyans. Last year my colleagues & I from the Tax Research Centre at Strathmore University made this proposal to the National Assembly Finance & Planning Committee, it didn't sail through (see quoted tweet).show more

Political gimmicks it's election time - they will want to reduce all taxes in June and the next finance bill in 2028 will be crazy they will even tax oxygen.. Remember the 2024 Finance bill? This year the government will reduce several taxes to for election games

There’s something worth paying attention to here. This moment feels planned. It’s possible the groundwork is being laid to make Kenyans more sympathetic ahead of the 2026 budget. Not through clarity, but through confusion. The question isn’t what they’re saying. It’s what they’re setting up. What exactly are they positioning the public to accept?

The govt has no business taxing . Unless it is to raise the net worth of some more than others.

@NjiruL Making 30K tax would reduce revenue collection. The average salary of most employees is 30k. The goal is to reduce PAYE rates across different bands.

As Good as done Finance bill 2026 will have a lot of sweeteners as we enter election year.

And it needs to be at 0%, not the shenanigans of offsetting it with relief

This is great,is it sustainable

@AmbokoJH @KRACare @kra what's easiest way to transition ETR to Etims

Even the housing levy will be scrapped this year but if they win by accident the new taxes will make 2024 look like a joke. Don't trust them

Rigathi's call for Okoa Payslip has made the govt rethink alot

A bit of common sense is slowly dripping on the executive

all over sudden, they have become very clever.

what does that mean for the deficit this year? They better lower the rates a bit further

U can't believe what these guys are saying. You will be a fool to believe them once again. They've never delivered on any of their promises

while it is a good thing, that gap will have to be bridged! And am scared 😳 coz the government ain’t there to make your life easier.

We are approaching elections so expect kasongo to lower taxes so that he can appease the public.

This is a government of propaganda and promies that will never happen, if they wanted they would have already ammended the law like they did with the housing levy n all

While it is true that life for the poor is difficult, focused on survival and is purely logistical 100% of the time (where to go, what to do, what to eat, where to work), the fact is this could have been done yesrs ago. The government decided to kill and disappear people rsther than do this. So it's too little too late and the impact on election results is likely to be very marginal

They will reduce it this year as a campaign tool, then re-introduce it after re-election

While it's a good move, a person earning 30k is currently paying 731 bob.

Very convenient to say all that while in Kiambu 😂. Let him actualize that in the budget. Let's see implementations. Not lamentations.

There is something here, what exactly are they trying to do? Are they actually telling us they care or they are just laying down the building blocks for some grand plan.

public relations is the course they mastered

All this while increasing tax on sanitary pads, daipers etc.