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More than 70 per cent Airbnb operators in Western Kenya tourism circuit are not paying the 2 per cent tourism levy as the law stipulates. Tourism Act, requires various entities offering accommodation services to remit levies based on income generated every month. The levy payable is two per cent of income generated per month for accommodation, and…
Kenya’s KCB Group’s pretax profit for the first quarter of this year jumped 53 per cent, assisted by higher interest income, it announced on Wednesday, May 22. The lender, which also operates in Uganda ,Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Burundi, said pretax profit rose to KSh21.16 billion from KSh13.85 billion in the…
Nairobi Woman Representative Esther Passaris has urged the National Treasury to push the 5 per cent withholding tax on the interest income earned from the infrastructure bonds to 20 per cent. She revealed this in a statement on Thursday, May 16, 2024 seen by Sacco Review where she noted that the current proposed tax will…
Co-op Bank has released its financial report for the first quarter of this year. The report showed that the bank had a profit after tax growth of 7.7 per cent to KSh6.58 billion which is an increase of KSh470 million from KSh6.11 billion posted during last year’s first quarter. The bank also reported a profit…
The CEOs of major Kenyan banks, including Equity, KCB Group, NCBA, Diamond Trust Bank (DTB), Standard Chartered Kenya (StanChart), and Absa, received a monthly pay exceeding KSh65 million last year. In the previously mentioned list of the top six banks, KCB Group’s Chief Executive, Paul Russo, was among the highest earners, receiving a monthly gross salary of KSh14.8…
Kenya’s Equity Group announced today Monday, May 13, that its first-quarter pretax profit rose 21 per cent to KSh20.4 billion, helped by growth in interest income. Equity, which also operates in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo, said its net interest income increased to 28 per cent, translating to KSh27.8 billion….
Chinese investor Zeyun Yang plans to put eight 34-storey blocks each accommodating 1632 families in Ngara estate which is located near Central Business District. Yang through his firm Erdemann Property said Rier Estate Housing Development will comprise a shopping complex with 60 outlets, where residents will be able to access essential purchases within the mixed-use…
KCB has advertised the sale of 78 of two-bed apartments at Greatwall Gardens in Athi River to recover a KSh1.9 debt that the developer Erdermann Property Limited had borrowed. In a notice in one of the daily newspaper on May 6, KCB Bank through the auctioneer Garam Investments, advertised the units for sales even as…
Equity Bank has once again been recognized as Kenya’s most admired brand, as banks top the list of best brands in the country. According to the latest report by brand valuation consultancy firm–Brand Finance, Equity attained a brand value increased to KSh65.8 billion, representing one per cent increase. Safaricom follows closely with KSh58.1 billion then…
Some 100 homeowners at Greatwall Gardens estate in Athi River might lose their units after Erdemann Property Limited lost a KSh1.9 Billion loan case against Kenya Commercial Bank. Erdermann Property Ltd, the developer made a prayer to the court saying that homeowners were innocent purchasers and that the units were sold by mistake, the prayer…
