{"id":182468,"date":"2024-10-13T22:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kuria-clears-the-air-on-m-pesa-paybills-as-tax-registers\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T22:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T20:44:04","slug":"kenya-kuria-clears-the-air-on-m-pesa-paybills-as-tax-registers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kuria-clears-the-air-on-m-pesa-paybills-as-tax-registers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kuria Clears the Air On M-Pesa Paybills As Tax Registers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto&#8217;s economic advisor Moses Kuria has clarified his remarks about virtual electronic tax registers (ETRs) made during the recent KRA Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Initially, media reports suggested that his comments were directed solely at MPESA, Kenya&#8217;s leading mobile money platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaWmSKbFsn0gEDGcPy0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Kuria, however, has refuted these claims, emphasizing that his remarks were aimed at all Payment Service Providers, including telcos and banks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;This is erroneous&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto&#8217;s economic advisor Moses Kuria has clarified his remarks about virtual electronic tax registers (ETRs) made during the recent KRA Summit. Initially, media reports suggested that his comments were directed solely at MPESA, Kenya&#8217;s leading mobile money platform. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp Kuria, however, has refuted these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7832,11223,4688,430,14141,26362,257,49736,11678,254,8352],"class_list":["post-182468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-clears","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kuria","tag-mpesa","tag-news","tag-paybills","tag-registers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}