𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐗𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐒, 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐊
The Senate Committee on Information Communication and Technology (ICT) has directed the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) to harmonize the national and county governments' levies and wayleaves to avoid double taxation of the telecommunication industry in the country.
This comes after CAK informed Senators that county governments are charging expensive wayleave charges for the laying of the fibre optic cables, exponentially driving up the cost of doing business and hindering ICT network penetration.