From the public perspective share my many on social media, the Kenyan business woman and Tycoon is more than just highly very privileged woman. The well connected and super ambitious business lady that was recently appointed as chairperson of the Communications authority is now even more powerful in this current regime thank the former Jubilee government. The reason as to why she has risen steadily and garnered the spotlight for herself is rather not quite what most people would have preferred to know her by.
Her case with the Kenya Revenue Authority has been in the public domain for a while now. The charges relating to tax evasion to a tune of over two billion shilling from her business operations have tainted her name and reputation. A recent announcement however, regarding the dropping of charges by KRA has shocked many Kenyans.
To some extent however, it is important to realize that her case is not the only high profile case involving tax evasion by top Kenyan business men and women. The difference with her case is that it comes in the background of the new government’s efforts to expand the tax net. This expansion is geared towards raising more taxes and fixing the loopholes in previous tax administration regime in Kenya.
Her close ties with the highest offices in the nation however, renders Mary Wambui as a very well privileged woman as orders to the office of the director of public prosecution were given to drop the tax evasion charges against her. In this new wave of freedom for all, Kenyans beg to ask the question of the government’s true commitment to fighting impunity at various levels of government.
The move to drop charges against her also prompts the debate about the equality and fairness of the tax administration system in Kenya. The new system that the government advocates for will task the hustlers and lower cadre earners higher or rather more than the tycoon who have overtime been proven to pay little or no tax at all. Even as the anti-corruption rhetoric continues from the government, Kenyans continue to see the prevailing actions and circumstances as actions will ever speak louder than words.
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