On 25 March 2020, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced various measures ‘to cushion every Kenyan from the shocks arising from COVID-19’, with the principle aim of providing certainty to both employees and employers. Subsequently, The Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was Gazetted on 30 March 2020 detailing out these and various other fiscal proposals. This is in addition to the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate to 14% which was effected on 1 April 2020.