The truth is its possible to tax FB use based on access by Kenyans or by IPs based in Kenya. But what you first have to define is what/who you want to tax, is it FB the company, people advertising in FB, or registered FB users.Tax FB the company and the people using FB. Social media has reached a level at which it is intoxicating and addictive. Just like alcohol and cigarettes

It is not possible to tax FB the company due to residence rules etc, they are not based in Kenya, so would fail the residency test which is a pre-requisite for taxation purposes, you would only be left with taxing their product/service as an import, so question is how would you go about determining the value of the import for tax purposes and who would be the importer of the service who would bear the tax.companies that sell goods in Kenya get taxed in Kenya irrespective of their residence. I guess the question is, is FB selling a commodity? What commodity? Are the consumers paying for that commodity? How are they paying for it? If indeed a bonafide transaction is taking place between consumer and provider, why should they not pay tax? Facebook commodity is the "feel good factor" that you get after spending hours on FB. A factor that is so good that you prefer to spend time on FB than on another site. You pay for this convenience with your personal data. Your phonebook details, your habits that are being tracked. Your eyes to see ads and buy into concepts. FB makes money out of this data by targeted advertising. So Kenyan consumer data is not worthless to FB as many are want to think. It is a product with value and so FB should pay tax for it.

People who would qualify as importers for service are the users or adverts originating from Kenyan IP addresses, in both cases, you would be making the product expensive for Kenyans while in no way affecting FB. Adverts are easy to capture but the problem is who would collect the tax for you. FB will be least bothered to collect and remit the advertising taxes to you knowing very well that you have very little chance of shutting them down in an open democracy, while users would not be willing to remit anything plus its impossible to measure their value. And that leaves you to tax data, which be default affects users idling on FB and those using data for important conference calls to negotiate business deals etc.Let there be a fee payable by FB to allow it to operate in Kenya. FB will choose to pay or not to pay. If they choose not to pay, they should be made to ensure that FB is not accessible from Kenya. Kenya has a right to determine what products are consumed in Kenya or not. FB are at liberty to recover the cost from the advertisers.

So the impact of the tax automatically shifts from FB to your poor Housegirl trying to upload a photo of herself lying on your sofa. In conclusion, you cannot tax FB, you can discourage its use, if that's what you want by taxing data, the way Museveni has done. How does my housegirl uploading her photo help the economy? In fact, she should pay for the luxury of uploading photos on FB while she should be watching the kids. One of the functions of tax is to discourage one habit while encouraging another. A tax on social media sites will discourage wasting time on useless status updates and gossip but encourage other sites that offer constructive ideas like wazua.

I can bet Safaricom probably makes a shilling for every penny facebook makes on our data, so maybe we should target Safaricom The world is moving towards targeting, efficiency and traceability. Safaricom should be taxed on data. Websites should be taxed also based on the commodity they provide. some commodities are worthless and encourage social evils like gossip, slandering, homosexuality, teenage sex etc. Social media sites like FB, Instagram et a fall in this category. Just like tax on beer and cigarettes is high, so should be the tax on these social media sites. I know many people who are extremely successful and yet are not on social media or even whatsup. So these sites are not a prerequisite for success. They exist to mine our data and use it to make money. For this reason, they should pay tax.

Your IQ must be very low. You can't debate your point bila matusi. I cannot continue to debate with a fool who cannot communicate without abuse and who thinks FB is just a server. Bure kabisa

Your IQ must be very low. You can't debate your point bila matusi. I cannot continue to debate with a fool who cannot communicate without abuse and who thinks FB is just a server. Bure kabisa

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