The Employment Bill, 2022 which is sponsored by the Senator of Nandi County, Samson Cherarkey, was gazetted by a Gazette Notice dated 9 December 2022 but has not yet been tabled to the Senate.

In a recent judgment, the Supreme Court of Kenya affirmed that children born out of wedlock are entitled to inherit from their deceased Muslim father's intestate estate.

On 1 July 2020, the Partner States celebrated 10 years of the EAC Common Market Protocol which guarantees free movement of goods, labour, services and capital within the EAC.

The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning issued the Value Added Tax (Digital Marketplace Supply) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022, through a Legal Notice dated 4 April 2022 which was published in the Kenya Gazette ...

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its 2022 version of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations...

Kenya is stepping up its efforts to join global tax transparent jurisdictions in connection with the exchange of information on foreign accounts for tax purposes.

The Breastfeeding Mothers Bill, 2019 (the Bill) was introduced to the National Assembly on 18 October 2019.

The Finance Bill, 2022 was published and gazetted on 8 April 2022. The Bill proposes to make amendments to a raft of tax-related laws in Kenya, including the Income Tax Act (Chapter 470, Laws of Kenya)...

The Tax Laws (Amendment) Act, 2020 which was aimed at making certain fiscal changes to the taxation regime as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic so as to cushion Kenyans against...

The most important sector of the African Economy is Agriculture. It contributes 15 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in sub-Saharan Africa and employs...

On 22 September 2005, the Tanzanian and South African (SA) Governments concluded a Double Tax Agreement (DTA)

In March 2022, legislation was rushed through the UK Parliament to introduce the Register of Overseas Entities owning UK land (ROE).

Considerable attention has been directed at climate change and its impact on the environment in recent years. At a global level, this attention resulted in the Paris Climate Accords of 2015...

The Advisory refers to a ‘‘reopening date'' that will be announced by the Government through the Ministry of Health or by any other authorised authority.

On 1 September 2023, the Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023 (the Amendment Act) was signed into law by the President of Kenya.

The Children (Guardianship) (Practice and Procedure) Rules, 2024 (the Rules) came into effect on October 2024.

In many financial transactions, it is common for a lender to require a guarantee, in addition to taking security such as charges and debentures.

The much-awaited regulations for the implementation of the Data Protection Act, 2019 (the DPA), which were gazetted in January, have been approved and are now in force.

Privacy is a fundamental human right and is central to the protection of human dignity. In its simplest form, the right to privacy allows each human being to be left alone in a core that is inviolable.

The American Chamber of Commerce Business Summit was held on 29 and 30 March 2023 in Nairobi. The objective of the Business Summit was to provide a strategic platform for strengthening two-way trade