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Capital Gains Tax - What if it is reintroduced?
GGK
#11 Posted : Tuesday, June 07, 2011 4:49:54 PM
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Capital Gain Tax would be ill advised in a country still trying to spur investments. It may help curb speculative practices in real estate but that is not the way to go. Real estate itself is ever on deficit.

For NSE it is just wrong and will reduce day-to-day volumes. I go with mkonomtupu widen the tax base and lets all share the 1 trillion budget
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#12 Posted : Tuesday, June 07, 2011 5:15:17 PM
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yekeyeke wrote:
Such a move would probably work in the NSE,but end up killing local investors interest, in the stock market, which was the ultimate aim of the government, but not the property market like land or houses. This is simply because of demand and supply.
There are too many people with pent up demand and land and buildings /houses are in very short supply.
This would mean that the buyers would simply avoid the tax by adding it on top of the property prices. This would in effect make the property prices unaffordable, making nonsense of the government efforts of making housing affordable and with the current housing crisis, your guess is as good as mine as to what the majority of Kenyans would be able to afford.....

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Iborian
#13 Posted : Tuesday, June 07, 2011 5:28:51 PM
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Kenyan politicians are allergic to anything that can hurt their interests. So I betcha that thing aint coming soon. At least not until ODM comes to power as they have not had too much time to accumulate large holdings.

Beisdes, The son of Ngina has to protect his family interests....
jawz1
#14 Posted : Tuesday, June 07, 2011 6:10:01 PM
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Iborian wrote:
Kenyan politicians are allergic to anything that can hurt their interests. So I betcha that thing aint coming soon. At least not until ODM comes to power as they have not had too much time to accumulate large holdings.

Besides, The son of Ngina has to protect his family interests....

Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Very true Iborian. What it comes down to is this...are Kenyan Mpigs willing to stand more taxes that affect them personally in form of paying income tax or capital gain tax? They will pull deals, block the budget and hold Gova to ransom on the constitution to block any taxation!
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#15 Posted : Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:33:47 PM
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Never for our young NSE.Is this thing practised in established markets like SA,NYSE or HongKong?
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Pierce
#16 Posted : Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:05:41 AM
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Okay let me put it this way, in which country is the CGT being levied, on which particular capital transactions and how has is it going/working? Is there a good story about CGT for any economy thus far?
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#17 Posted : Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:12:41 AM
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Pierce wrote:
Okay let me put it this way, in which country is the CGT being levied, on which particular capital transactions and how has is it going/working? Is there a good story about CGT for any economy thus far?

SA GGT for individuals is 25% and for Companies 50%
guru267
#18 Posted : Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:24:03 AM
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Pierce wrote:
Okay let me put it this way, in which country is the CGT being levied, on which particular capital transactions and how has is it going/working? Is there a good story about CGT for any economy thus far?


It is charged just next door in uganda... Most developed matkets also charge...
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the deal
#19 Posted : Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:33:18 AM
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This thing will be good for companies like Centum
jawz1
#20 Posted : Wednesday, June 08, 2011 9:17:08 AM
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All this debate makes me realise why Republicans are passionate about using tax cuts to stimulate business. My two cents, don't introduce this measure now. The economy hangs on a precipice, any hasty move may swing us into recession.
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