waivers Stories

Senators raise alarm over arbitrary land rates and corruption risks in counties
Lucy Mumbi  |  Aug 11, 2025

This confrontation follows complaints from senators who say some counties are applying land rates in ways that threaten residents’ welfare and raise b...

Nairobi County issues 60-day ultimatum to unpaid, undeveloped plot owners
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jul 21, 2025

The affected plots lie within site and service schemes, regularised informal settlements and various infills across the city.

Sakaja: Nairobi's development stalled by land rate defaulters
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jun 04, 2025

Sakaja also revealed that residents living in council houses without paying land rates for more than 10 years had been evicted, saying the city had lo...

Freemasons Society sues Nairobi City County Government over Sh19 million land rate dispute
Carolyne Kubwa  |  May 21, 2025

In the case filed by the Masonic Trustees, the society claims that the county was aware that they were exempt from paying rates.

Freemasons’ Hall shut, over 100 Ngara tenants thrown out in Nairobi land rate crackdown
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 14, 2025

The building, located in the city centre, reportedly owes over Sh19 million in land rates.

KRA waives Sh165 billion in penalties as over three million Kenyans benefit from tax amnesty
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 13, 2025

The second phase of the programme, launched in December, targets penalties and interest accumulated up to December 2023.

City Hall to freeze accounts, auction properties over Sh50 billion land rates arrears
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 13, 2025

County officials say they have no choice but to act, with the total land rates debt now approaching Sh50 billion.

Kenya lost over Sh500 billion to tax waivers and corruption- report
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Apr 30, 2025

According to the NTA, tax incentives offered to attract foreign direct investment have instead contributed to revenue loss when given without proper i...

Uncollected taxes, poor enforcement bleeding counties dry, auditor's report shows
Lucy Mumbi  |  Mar 05, 2025

Governor Susan Kihika’s Nakuru County is owed over Sh7.9 billion in revenue arrears, significantly affecting its ability to meet its own-source revenu...

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