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Taxing mobile phone transactions in Africa: Lessons from Kenya
Taxation on mobile phone-based transactions and on airtime has been introduced in Kenya and is spreading to other African countries.
Some countries in sub-Saharan Africa view mobile phones as a booming subsector easy to tax due to the increasing turnover of transactions and the formal nature of such transactions by both formal and informal enterprises.
- Njuguna Ndung’u
- Brookings
The increasing tax burden on the subsector and the consumers, though, has raised concerns that the massive gains made in financial inclusion in developing countries made possible by…