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๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐. The first "hut taxes" (East Africa Hut Tax Ordinance 1903) and the later Poll Tax (Native Hut and Poll Tax Ordinance 1910) were partly intended to coerce Africans, who would not otherwise have sought wage employment, into... show more
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@alfredarapketer please please do for us a video summary of this in Kalenjin so that we send our parents. They will listen to you ๐๐พ๐๐พ
This leasehold tax will awaken boomers in the villages. Ancestral land is a no go zone. If brothers can kill each other over land inheritance and the main motivation for independence was landownership
I can't believe someone thinks this is OK
Forget about any other thing,this is where the biggest issue is #RejectFinanceBill2024
Gaddamit! About 100 years from now, the colonialists will be in full control.
This is a protest against the IMF and not against anyone! Proud to see the youth of Nairobi and every county standing up against the Kenya Finance Bill 2024! ๐ขโ Their voices echo the frustrations of 57 million Kenyans as the proposed tax hikes threaten livelihoods and economic stability. Together, we demand a fair and just economic Finance Bill for all Kenyans. #YouthPower #StopFinanceBill2024 #GenZke
I think the most worrying bit about leasehold is if you default on the payments they can very easily take away your land
There are so many people in the rural areas who don't have jobs or any way of making good money. The only thing they have is the land they were given by their parents or grand parents. How will they be able to pay these taxes?
Aai Ruto anataka kutua wallahi,and whats funny our parents dont know this na wamenyamaza wanashinda wakituambia we will gain nothing tukienda demonstration.#RejectTheEntireFinanceBill2024
You will own nothing and be happy. -Klaus Schwab, WEF Chair-
![COMMONS HOUSING SELECT COMMITTEE: STATEMENT FROM FREE LEASEHOLDERS 3/3/26 Today, we told Parliament the truth. About the cynical games Conservative and Labour governments have been playing with your homes, money and lives. It was awkward. We had to motor through to cover as many points as humanely possible in a short time. Sorry if we didnโt cover yours. We are the insurgents against a very closed and broken political system. We will go away when they finally free the people from the property servitude of leasehold. Until then, we will keep challenging the official line and holding power to account, however uncomfortable that may be. Parliament has been talking about abolishing leasehold, a legacy of serfdom, since the 1880s, before working men and women had the right to vote. In 2026, we keep hearing itโs โcomplicatedโ and our politicians need more time because they might get sued by the wealthy landowners. What happened to the will of the people? Isnโt Parliament sovereign? Wasnโt that what all the Brexit lark was about? And doesnโt this Labour government have the second biggest parliamentary majority in its 126-year history as the so-called working peopleโs party? Keir Starmer can do a TikTok stunt on ground rents. But he canโt run away from the truth. His government are peddling a draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill that has been purged of policies that you voted for in the The Labour Party manifesto. Policies promised again in the July 2024 Kingโs Speech: the remaining Law Commission enfranchisement and Right to Manage recommendations. So you can finally โtake back controlโ. The Starmer administration appears to be captured by the deep-pocketed freeholder lobby and property cartels. And the Prime Minister is in thrall to the hand-wringing lawyers who bleat on about the risk of judicial review and ECHR lawfare, as if the rights of extortionists, many offshore, and lofty international law matter more than the British people being looted in their homes and what election manifestos have promised time and time again. This government claims that they are ending the feudal leasehold system. Instead, they keep it on life support by protecting money-for-nothing ground rents until 2068. Weโll have flying cars before feudalism is banished from our homes! And buried away in the small print, the Labour government concedes our point: โleasehold as a tenure will not disappear overnight and it will be a feature of the housing market for many years to come.โ The government is also siding with the leasehold grifters by failing to restrict development value in the draft legislation, which means many flat leaseholders will never be able to afford to buy their freehold, something that must happen before conversion to commonhold. Remember, the freeholdersโ main lobby group, the Residential Freehold Association, admits that the typical freeholder owns just 2.5% capital value in a block of flats. These wealth-destroying corporates own a sliver of our homes and have the cheek to talk about their human rights. We are not Mugabeists. We will, of course, pay a fair rate to compensate the freeholder to leave our homes for good. But demanding more of our money so they can thwart our right to buy them out, on the basis that they could theoretically build a skyscraper in the garden, is taking the mick and must end, as the government first promised in 2021. Donโt take our word on the scam of freeholders invoking development value to block leaseholdersโ bid for self-rule. Barrister Nicola Muir, of Tanfield Chambers, has written that โit is amazing what developments landlords believe are possible and the profits they claim they will generateโ, citing a telling example from practice: โThe landlord initially claimed ยฃ34 million for the alleged potential to build a skyscraper in the front garden of the block. Such claims can obviously be a deterrent to leaseholders, who probably have no intention of developing.โ And we were the ONLY campaign group that urged the Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee to ensure that this government sets enfranchisement rates high in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, to the benefit of leaseholders. There is a major risk that, due to the influence peddling of ground rent grifters and their lobbyists in Westminster and Whitehall, the government will fail to implement these long-awaited reforms already on the statute books. Matthew Pennycook MP promised in November 2024 to put enfranchisement rates out to public consultation last summer, but it never happened. And if the government is forced to begin the enfranchisement changes in the 2024 Act, it will likely set the deferment and capitalisation rates artificially low, stuffing freeholdersโ mouths with gold when desperate leaseholders try to extend their leases or buy out the freehold. These deferment and capitalisation rates are already derived from freeholder-friendly case law, specifically the 2006 Upper Tribunal decision known as Sportelli, with the deferment rate set at 4.75% for houses and 5.0% for flats, and a capitalisation rate of 6.0%. While the 2024 Act is vague on what these rates should be, we know that investors routinely buy freeholds at auction or directly from developers at higher rates than those implied by Sportelli, meaning they pay significantly less than leaseholders are already required to pay under statutory schemes with the low Sportelli rates. For example, an analysis of Allsop Ground Rent Auctions found that investors have been paying an average 9% capitalisation rate for the ground rent in freehold titles โ well above Sportelliโs 6%. This situation is clearly unfair, and there is significant industry lobbying to keep the deferment and capitalisation rates low, i.e. below the going market rates, so that freeholders are excessively compensated by leaseholders. Once the rates are set in the 2024 Act, they remain fixed for ten years, creating jeopardy that they will be set to the disadvantage of leaseholders, who are less organised and resourced than industry interests to influence policy. If the rates are set substantially below Sportelli rates, the savings from other provisions of the 2024 Act โ such as the removal of marriage value, the 0.1% restriction on ground rents, and the end of the requirement to pay the freeholderโs reasonable legal and valuation costs โ would be more than cancelled out, leaving leaseholders paying more than they do today under the current rules. Minister Pennycook highlighted this risk while in opposition during the passage of the 2024 Act, stating that Labour โremain[s] convinced that this government, or a future one, could be lobbied by vested interests to set a deferment rate that will be punitive to leaseholders.โ He proposed an amendment on the deferment rate to guide the Secretary of State, requiring that โin setting the deferment rate, the Secretary of State must have regard to the desirability of encouraging leaseholders to extend their lease at the lowest possible costโ, although the amendment was not passed. This policy ought to be in the draft Bill, yet it remains absent. We are urging that the 2024 Act be amended to require that the enfranchisement rates must not fall below an absolute floor of the existing Sportelli rates (with the deferment rate of 4.75% for houses and 5.0% for flats, and a capitalisation rate of 6.0%). But leaseholders should really benefit from market rates, i.e. those which developers and investors already enjoy being significantly above Sportelli, to ensure that they do not pay excessive compensation to freeholders, as occurs under the current system, to buy their freehold or extend a lease. And this isnโt just about what goes into the algorithm for the online enfranchisement calculator under the 2024 Act, or about ending the development value scam, a reform dropped from the legislation after behind-the-scenes lobbying. We will not accept a failure to bring forward a Universal Right to Manage, as part of a glidepath to commonhold. Watch what our founder said about a well-connected landlord and tenant barrister who bragged to the property tribunal last year that he had worked on the Law Commissionโs Right to Manage reforms, all while representing an offshore billionaire freeholder trying to block leaseholdersโ quest for Right to Manage. It should be easy. But the leaseholders at this development had to spend ยฃ150,000 just to defend their no-fault right against this legal onslaught at the First-tier Tribunal. They won, but the freeholder is now appealingโฆ Beyond Right to Manage reform, we need a Right to Participate in collective enfranchisement so that all flat leaseholders can buy a share of the freehold even if they miss out the first time when one group of neighbours has enough support to enfranchise the block. It is unfair for leaseholders to be locked out of decisions over the charges they pay and the services affecting their home when they are ready to buy their share of the freehold. Sorting this inequity was the will of Parliament with Right to Enfranchise provisions in the 2002 Act. Itโs also what the Law Commission originally recommended before seemingly being pressured by vested interests to drop the policy from their final recommendations in 2020. Also, why on earth should leaseholders have to contort themselves to get 50% support of all unit-owners in a block? Satisfying the onerous 50% participation threshold is near impossible in bigger buildings and those with high levels of buy-to-let, yet scummy investors face no qualifying criteria when hoovering up the freeholds of our homes from developers or auctioneers behind our backs. Donโt patronise us with Lord Bestโs scheme for managing agents. We want liberation, not regulation. Thereโs a reason both the freeholder and managing agent lobbies are gagging for the cosy Lord Best policy, which wasnโt promised in either the Labour manifesto or the Kingโs Speech. It will jack up leaseholdersโ already sky-high service charges, repeat the cruel joke of the Building Safety Regulator, and keep freeholders and their managing agent cronies firmly in the ecosystem. At the same time, a statutory regulator of managing agents will no doubt restrict competition by keeping out small ethical new entrants. It will also allow the government to claim job done while failing to end leasehold. Even without leasehold abolition, leaseholders will still be denied rightful control of their service charges and the power to easily sack their managing agent - the real regulation needed to rein in rip-off service providers and put them out of business, not some powerless or captured regulator in Whitehall. Labour should be for the grafters. If the government wants to win back public support after the Gordon and Denton by-election drubbing, salvaging this draft legislation and swiftly commencing the 2024 Act must be its priority. Show that politics can be a force for good. Stand up to the ground rent grifters and offshore property mafia. Free leaseholders. 5.3 million households in England and Wales are watching.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2028949666432205114/media/HChK-xoXEAAI0u3.jpg)
