Kenya plans new taxes on mobile phones and banking fees to raise nearly $1 billion, aiming to slash fiscal deficit to lowest in a decade, Bloomberg reports
Kenya plans to impose taxes on mobile phones and banking fees to help raise nearly $1 billion in revenue as part of efforts to reduce the nation's fiscal deficit to its lowest in a decade and address debt challenges.
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