{"id":236203,"date":"2026-06-13T16:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-motorists-association-rejects-ntsa-e-logbook-conversion-fees-as-backdoor-taxation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:20:16","slug":"kenya-motorists-association-rejects-ntsa-e-logbook-conversion-fees-as-backdoor-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-motorists-association-rejects-ntsa-e-logbook-conversion-fees-as-backdoor-taxation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Motorists Association Rejects NTSA E-Logbook Conversion Fees As &#8216;Backdoor Taxation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Motorists Association of Kenya (MAK) has rejected plans to charge vehicle owners for converting physical logbooks into electronic logbooks, describing the move as &#8220;unjustified and unreasonable&#8221; and accusing government agencies of imposing backdoor taxation on motorists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The association argued that motorists have already paid for logbooks during vehicle registration and should not be required to incur additional costs to facilitate the government&#8217;s digitisation agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The protest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120543.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 Motorists Association of Kenya (MAK) has rejected plans to charge vehicle owners for converting physical logbooks into electronic logbooks, describing the move as &#8220;unjustified and unreasonable&#8221; and accusing government agencies of imposing backdoor taxation on motorists. The association argued that motorists have already paid for logbooks during vehicle registration and should not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":236204,"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":[258,256,5735,54608,25938,54607,11432,4688,430,9709,257,10500,8440,254,7054],"class_list":["post-236203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-association","tag-backdoor","tag-conversion","tag-elogbook","tag-fees","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-motorists","tag-news","tag-ntsa","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxation"],"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\/236203","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=236203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}