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This is how a month of World Cup action began 🔥

The the FIFA World Cup kicks off today. We join millions of fans across Kenya and the world in wishing all participating teams a successful tournament, with a special salute to the African nations carrying our continent’s hopes onto the global stage. May the competition showcase excellence, unity, resilience and the enduring power of sport to bring people together across borders and cultures. Let the games begin! ⚽🏆

A pretty heavy National Assembly agenda starting this afternoon: Thursday 11th June, 2026 · Pronouncement of the 2026/27 Budget highlights by National Treasury CS, John Mbadi Tuesday 16th June, 2026 · Appropriation Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading & Committee of the Whole House · Finance Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading & Committee of the Whole House. This means we should expect the Finance & Planning Committee Report to be tabled · The Central Bank of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2026 goes through the Second Reading · The Kenya Revenue Authority (Amendment) Bill goes through the Second Reading

From Morocco’s Atlas Lions 🇲🇦 and Senegal’s Lions of Teranga 🇸🇳 to South Africa’s Bafana Bafana 🇿🇦, Africa will be well represented at the Fifa World Cup. 🌍⚽ Which team will you be cheering on? 🔥

"We are spending more than twice the global average on elections. And this is primarily because we are living in a very low trust political environment." - @TomMboya #TSNR Listen to the full conversation here ---> youtube.com/watch?v=CvjY4hrn…

The world has been warned El Nino is returning, so what is it, and should we be worried? @SeabrookClimate has the details about the natural weather phenomenon trib.al/KTLSYFP

A moment that was 22 years in the making. This time last week, @Arsenal lifted the Premier League trophy 🏆

You did it, @Arsenal 🏆

Through the ups and downs - we felt your backing every step of the way this season, Gooners 👏 We can't wait to celebrate an historic season with you later today in N5 ❤️

Here's everything you need to know about today's historic parade 👇

How we got here ❤️‍🔥

A special observer on MD-1 👑 Watch Inside Training from the Puskas Arena, on The Arsenal app ⚡️

All eyes on Odegaard 🔍

We know what this means.

The National Assembly Finance & Planning Committee has been told that the argument by the National Treasury that Finance Bill 2026 will make phones cheaper by consolidating taxes on mobile phones is incorrect. In case you are lost, here's what Finance Bill 2026 proposes: · Delete paragraph 29, of the 2nd Schedule to the VAT Act, 2013 which currently provides VAT zero rate on the supply of locally assembled & manufactured mobile phones · The Bill proposes to classify as exempt the supply of imported or locally purchased telephones for cellular networks & other wireless networks · Impose 25.0% excise rate on locally assembled phones (currently 0%) & increase the rate on imports from 10.0% to 25.0% · Also, the Bill shifts the excise duty trigger to the point of phone activation · The Bill proposes to exempt imported finished phones from IDF and RDL Sun King's core argument is that Finance Bill 2026 means that locally assembled phones will lose 3 protections they currently enjoy simultaneously: · Input VAT recovery since they are being reclassified from Zero-rated to Exempt status · Prior excise exemption · While Finance Bill 2026 exempts imported finished phones from IDF and RDL, it provides no equivalent relief for imported components used in local assembly of phones Sun King argues that the net effect of Finance Bill 2026 proposals is that: · There will be ~11.0% retail price increase required to make the current operations for imported finished phones viable under a Finance Bill 2026 tax regime · There will be a ~34.0% retail price increase required to make the current operations for locally assembled phones viable under a Finance Bill 2026 tax regime Sun King argues that its Tatu City facility (Kes 25.0 million invested, 50 direct jobs, 80,000 phones produced to date) would face closure under a Finance Bill 2026 arrangement as currently proposed.

High Court bars State from establishing Ebola facilities under US deal, citing threat to life. Conservatory orders issued. Mention set for June 2.

High Court blocks US-Kenya plan to build Ebola quarantine facility zurl.co/g4HG4

CS Migos Ogamba: Out of 808 girls, 79 were injured. 71 have been treated and discharged while 7 remain admitted. We have 16 fatalities whose identities will be identified. The process of accounting is taking place

Utumishi Girls fire: 16 students confirmed dead and 79 injured in inferno; CS Ogamba says identification of learners who passed away ongoing.

Should the taxpayer still bear the burden of proof in instances where a tax dispute with the Revenue Authority is based in pre-populated & third party data? In my submission before the National Assembly's Finance & Planning Committee on behalf of the Tax Research Centre at @StrathU, I argue that Finance Bill 2026's proposals seeking to anchor Incomes & Expenses Validation in law will be incomplete if they do not include a proposal for the the Revenue Authority being saddled with the burden of proof in such instances. Here's why: · Finance Bill 2026 proposes to amend Sec75 of the Tax Procedures Act to provide that the Revenue Authority may use technology to pre-populate tax returns on behalf of a person required to submit or lodge a tax return · Finance Bill 2026 further proposes that a person required to submit or lodge a tax return may rely on pre-populated return generated by the Revenue Authority to file their return · Finance Bill 2026 proposes to amend Sec112 to provide that the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury may make Regulations for the procedure for the submission or lodging of returns based on pre-populated tax returns generated by the Revenue Authority Here's where the problem is: · In all this, Sec56(1) which provides that "In any proceedings, the burden shall be on the taxpayer to prove that a tax decision is incorrect" remains unchanged · Sec56(1) is predicated on the fact that Kenya has been running on a self-assessment based regime & the data upon which tax disputes emerges was held by the taxpayer · With Incomes & Expenses Validation & the onset of a Dual Assessment regime in Kenya, taxpayers are now exposed not just to errors of judgement & data on their part, but also errors of technology & transmission which are out of their control · Can we really still have the burden of proof lying exclusively with the taxpayer in an environment where tax compliance has shifted from a function of record keeping to one where system integration reliability is now a key factor?