{"id":200532,"date":"2025-06-20T02:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-national-assembly-passes-finance-bill-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:13:38","slug":"kenya-national-assembly-passes-finance-bill-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-national-assembly-passes-finance-bill-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: National Assembly Passes Finance Bill 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenyans can breathe a sigh of relief as the National Assembly passed the Finance Bill 2025 after stripping the proposal allowing the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) unfettered access to customer records.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The bill which is expected to raise Sh24 billion now awaits assent by President William Ruto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The house approved the amendments by the Finance and Planning committee chaired by Molo Member of Parliament Kimani Kuria which rejected KRA&#8217;s proposal for unrestricted access to personal data&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506190563.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 Kenyans can breathe a sigh of relief as the National Assembly passed the Finance Bill 2025 after stripping the proposal allowing the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) unfettered access to customer records. The bill which is expected to raise Sh24 billion now awaits assent by President William Ruto. The house approved the amendments by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7269,7292,7829,4688,430,6687,257,9871,254],"class_list":["post-200532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-bill","tag-finance","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-passes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/200532","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=200532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}