{"id":228633,"date":"2026-03-27T01:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-new-taxes-as-govt-targets-wider-tax-base-mbadi-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:21:48","slug":"kenya-no-new-taxes-as-govt-targets-wider-tax-base-mbadi-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-no-new-taxes-as-govt-targets-wider-tax-base-mbadi-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No New Taxes As Govt Targets Wider Tax Base, Mbadi Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The government will not introduce new taxes, with National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi saying current rates will remain unchanged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Appearing before the National Assembly&#8217;s Budget and Appropriations Committee, Mbadi said the economic situation facing Kenyans has not significantly changed to warrant new tax measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;I want to state that we are not looking at possibility of increasing tax rates because again there is no difference between this year and last year. Kenyans are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603260467.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 The government will not introduce new taxes, with National Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi saying current rates will remain unchanged. Appearing before the National Assembly&#8217;s Budget and Appropriations Committee, Mbadi said the economic situation facing Kenyans has not significantly changed to warrant new tax measures. &#8220;I want to state that we are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228634,"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":[258,256,6829,4357,4688,430,30500,257,254,7317,8352,12062,20564],"class_list":["post-228633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-base","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mbadi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-wider"],"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\/228633","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=228633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}