to avoid paying taxes, it was agreed company X would buy half Paying dividents.Mr.Z already had a large dividend income so that any profitsįrom company Y would be taxed at the punitive tax levels/rates.Inorder for bothĬompany Y and Mr. In receivership while company Y was profitable and had made profits capable of African boys were forced to pay taxes at 16yrs.InĬonnection to this state of affairs, Van Zwanenberg in his book ColonialĬapitalism and labour in Kenya 1919 to 1939 he observed :. Africans resorted to taxĪvoidance mechanisms.
They had to look for employment to pay the taxes. One consequence is that it became very troublesome for Africans and Harry Thuku and others held riots protesting against excessive taxation ofĪfricans. Settlers were not paying any of these taxes. Three rupees per head and was raised to eight rupees in 1920.Indians and white Used as a mechanism for creating labour for the settlers farms. Ordinance was enacted which allowed imposition of a poll tax in 1910 which wasĪssed upon the whole population and was being introduced in order to forceĪfricans to look for employment in white settlers farm to raise the tax revenue The settler has feared Indian competition andġ892 when the hut tax was introduced on Africans assessed on a man in relation He also wanted Indians but the Indians could not manage to come since they He then turned to Europe where they wanted the Jews to come and settle in East Africa. Unfortunately,įor Sir Eliot the British decided to send settlers who were mainly old and poor. The native’s salaries would then be taxed. Government to send over settlers who would start businesses where the natives Raising tax bases in East Africa he wrote several memos to the British Native commissioner of that period was Sir Charles Eliot for purposes of Kenyan part, which required some injection of settlers from abroad. By executing this mandate, they separated the Ugandan part from the Their mandate was to make East Africa self sustaining through economicĪctivities. Sought to recover expenses of this rule through taxing the inhabitants who wereįour. Of the company that was already in the territory to administer British rule. In 1895, Britain declared protectorate status over East Africa and used the staff
Through taxing their own citizens, bewildered inhabitants of this protectorate. Seek grants from British colonial government, which the British could only get The new intruders the company could not at that point in time find anyĪctivities it could levy taxes on.1887-1888 in process of which it continued to To extract taxes and any other tariffs from the population in its protectorate. Companies to finance its activities, it was given political and economic power