Kenya could have abolished all taxes and levies on ICT products long ago by signing the WTO Information Technology Agreement

(htttp://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/inftec_e/inftec_e.htm) but for some reason this appears never to have happened. Presumably the EA Common Tariffs became a complication or maybe there is lack of knowledge about the Agreement. The purpose of the Agreement is for signatory countries to eliminate all forms of levies on ICT products. Two days ago Obama was in China and the biggest news out of that trip is that he managed to get the Chinese to sign onto this Agreement http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbrinkley/2014/11/11/u-s-and-china-agree-to-tariff-free-technology-trade/

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014, at 05:36 AM, Ali Hussein via kictanet wrote:

Listers.

Interesting article.

KITOS, hope you are listening...

Kenya has in the past few years showed promise of renewed innovative capacity, especially in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector.

But the new tax regime precipitated by the East African Community (EAC) tax harmonisation is about to reverse all the gains we have made thus far.

Read on

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/ndemo/-/2274486/2516562/-/1xv3f7z/-/index.html

Ali Hussein

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