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A white Android smartphone resting on a stack of mixed-denomination banknotes, illustrating the link between handsets and mobile money in Kenya.

The Tax That Begins When the SIM Goes In: How Kenya's New 25 Percent Mobile Duty Reaches Every Phone the Diaspora Sends Home

Treasury calls it simplification. The Finance Bill 2026 quietly relocates the tax line from the port to the activation screen, and onto every diaspora gift that has to wake up on a Safaricom network.

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