The Government’s plan to deduct housing levy from workers starting this month continues to face rejections.
Kenyans claims the house levy is the worst mischief ever which is being forced down the throats of citizens on the most undemocratic manner without even public participation.
Adding that the money will be deducted only for the corrupt government officials to steal all of them.
In a newspaper advertisement on Tuesday, the Housing ministry and KRA announced that the housing fund levy “has come into effect”, meaning every employed Kenyan must remit 1.5 per cent of their basic salary for April to the National Housing Development Fund.
Employers are also required to send a figure matching the employees’ deductions to the Housing fund.
“The employers are required to deduct and remit the levy together with other statutory levies from both the employer and the employee by the 9th of each succeeding month together with other payroll statutory deductions. The first contribution shall be due by May 9, 2019,” the advertisement stated.
The deduction became law by the enactment of the Finance Act 2018 that followed the budget statement presented to Parliament by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich.