TIFA Research has released a report on four provisions that Kenyans are not comfortable with in President William Ruto’s maiden budget.
The report released on Tuesday, July 4, stated that 24 percent of Kenyans are against the increase in Value Added Tax on petroleum products and 10 percent against the removal of unga subsidies.
The other two provisions that Kenyans mentioned are the Housing levy (10 percent) and increased taxation (5 percent).
TIFA, however, noted that 4 percent of Kenyans said that education support is the best provision in the budget, housing levy (4 percent), subsidised farm inputs (4 percent), and elimination of tax on LPG (2 percent).
“Only a modest minority of Kenyans identified any “best” provisions of the new Budget when invited to do so (21%), with support for the education sector and the new housing program being most frequently mentioned (4% each). By contrast, a clear majority mentioned a provision they consider as “worst” (56%), with the tax on all petroleum products being by far the leading category (24%),” TIFA stated.
The survey further stated that 69 percent of Kenyans do not support the Housing Levy while 24 percent of Kenyans support it. Five percent of Kenyans had no opinion while 2 percent did not reply.
