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Kenya: Court Bars State From Implementing Housing Levy
Nation, 20 May 2019
The High Court has extended orders barring the government from implementing the 1.5 percent housing levy until May 27. Read more »
The High Court has ordered that the government, until May 27, temporarily stops its plan to take 1.5% of workers' gross salary in the formal sector, to set up the housing fund that is meant to help with the plans for affordable housing for citizens.
Construction of civil servants' houses in Kisumu County (file photo).
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