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Land Rights in Kenya: Land Rates and Taxes.

  in 2015 having been suspended in 1985. CGT is charged at the rate of 5% of the gain. There are various exemptions on CGT provided under the ITA. The tax on rental income is a tax arising from the gains and profits for occupation of property. The ITA provides for various ways of taxing rental income; Where the rent is payable to a non-resident, the tenant is required to withhold 30% of the rent and remit it to the Kenya Revenue Authority. The tax withheld is a final tax. Where the rent is payable to a resident, if the property is commercial, the tenant being an appointed agent, is required to withhold 10 % of the rent. The tax withheld is not a final tax and the landlord is required to file their income tax in the usual way. Where the rent is payable to a resident and the property is residential, the landlord may opt to either pay a monthly rental income tax, computed at 10 % of the gross rent a (final tax) or pay the instalment tax and final income tax in the usual way. Stamp duty-  

Networking design of a decentralized Internet

  Networking design of a decentralized Internet     Hey everyone, I've been thinking through mesh net concepts and how a new, more decentralized, the internet could be built. Or merged in, rather. This will probably consist of a few decent thoughts mixed in with some unbacked rants and statements, so please bear with me. I have little concept of wireless networking and effective mesh networking, so not all of my ideas may come together. Ideally, we'd have a mix of both. Run some CAT-5 to your neighbor, bury some fiber to your friend a km away, and connect to a mesh network. Wireless is extremely complex but lets us work without wires where impractical, too illegal, and where we're not ready for them. We should find a way to mix and blend our layer 1 friends without making the others suffer. Layer 3 thoughts: Scrap the notion of IPv4 altogether. We can do fancy things with IPv