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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-  
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ELECTIONS SUSPENDED

  ELECTIONS SUSPENDED Explainer: Why Libya's election has collapsed and what comes next Libya fell apart after the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi In Summary •Libya fell apart after the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi  •Putting the presidential vote first meant the election came down to a winner-takes-al A billboard with an image of Libya's eastern commander and presidential candidate Khalifa Haftar is pictured by a roadside in Benghazi, Libya December 22, 2021 Image:   Reuters Libya said on Wednesday its planned election would not take place but it has not set a new date or worked out how to move forward to avoid a return to conflict. This sets out the main issues and what might happen next. HOW DID WE GET HERE? Libya fell apart after the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi and split in 2014 between warring eastern and western factions. The peace process follows the collapse in 2020 of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar's 14-month assault on Tripoli. Eastern an
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ATTACK ON PEARL HABOR ...80 YEARS LATER

  Eighty years ago, 6-year-old Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson sat down to a Sunday morning breakfast at home on Hawaii's Pan American airbase when the walls began to shake. It was Dec. 7, 1941, and planes were flying low overhead. She remembers her dad, a civilian, remarking how strange it was for the Army and Navy to engage in practice flights on a Sunday. They ran outside and saw Japanese torpedo bombers skimming the tops of trees along Pearl Harbor.  "I could see the pilots. They were that low and close," Nicholson, 86, told USA TODAY. "I didn’t know at the time they were torpedo planes." Soon, the walls of Nicholson's family's kitchen would have bullets in them. There would be shrapnel in her front yard She still carries a bullet that was lodged into the wall telephone as a memento. "You need to know your history," she said. Tuesday marks eight decades since the shocking attack on Pearl Harbor. The date that changed the course of a nation
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