Looks like the taxman will hit thier target for this month easily.

How do you deposit and withdraw from the international bet-houses?

That process is too complicated. It's easier to quit betting altogether and let the government collect zero tax from zero gross winnings and see who will blink first.

I visited their site and noted that at some point they might require you to take a selfie holding your ID card revealing your name. Going through their conditions for redeeming bonus payouts is harder than sitting a biochemistry exam in Chiromo campus.

OK, this is how (if you don't want bank prepaid cards like me);

1. Buy BitCoins using M-Pesa on paxful.com (Say KShs. 5,000.00 for BTC 0.00493. M-Pesa charge KShs. 61)

2. Sell the BitCoins on paxful.com to your Skrill Account for US$48.55 (1% service charge of about US$ 0.5)

3. Deposit the US$48 to bet365.com

4. Bet on a game with Odds as low as 1.10 and recover ALL your transaction costs.

Read Kanini Kega (sp) interview on BD this week. That is the GoK's thinking that gambling is evil and addictive and is wasting youth in Kenya.

Not only that, but I personally know one of the owners of one of the (former) top betting firms in Kenya. These guys are foreigners, so every week they used to ship out 20 million minimum to some tax haven, then on to Denmark where they stay. This is devastating to the Kenyan economy since all the top betting firms were foreign owned and doing the same procedure. Note that in betting, the company doesn't sell anything to their customers, so when they make their money, it is the same as stealing from an accounting perspective. And also note that betting companies are not large employers, they can get by with very few employees. The company I'm talking about had 20 something employees.

How exactly is this money circulating in the economy??? Everton is not within our economy! I have no issue with building a Vegas in Isiolo or North Eastern where the rich go but these small bets of 20 bob on promises of making millions in an impoverished country like Kenya is a disaster for the young jobless generation. Safaricom as much as I respect it, is an enabler of poverty.

It is very wrong to collect money from impoverished kenyans to go and sponsor premier league clubs and formula 1 racing, while also enriching the eastern european owners of the gambling firms. The illicit transfer of resources from poor africa to rich europe must be condemned. That is modern day slavery and it must be stopped. Gambling should be outlawed.

Even the small winnings are money circulating in the economy. As I stated above, the sponsoring of an English club was stupid, it even exposed them to too much scrutiny, but as long as they were sponsoring teams that the govt had no other way o sustaining them then its a loss.