Enacted Digital services
Kenya — Digital financial platform VAT
This page records one dated change. For the rules in Kenya as they stand today, see the Kenya guide →
- Jurisdiction
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- Tax
- VAT
- Change type
- Digital services
- Status
- Enacted
- Effective
- 1 July 2026
- Verified
- Corroborated against official id · high confidence
The Finance Act 2026 was signed into law on 23 June 2026 and, from 1 July 2026, applies 16% VAT to digital financial-platform services previously exempt - money transfer, payment processing, settlement, merchant acquiring, payment gateway and aggregation services supplied through software or a digital platform for a fee or commission. Person-to-person mobile money transfers remain exempt.