Saved by Grace🙏|Environment Scientist|Tax|Climate|Entrepreneur| Philanthropist
Nairobi, Kenya
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Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
THREAD: My latest investigation into the proposed Upper Imenti airstrip found two elephants walking across the cleared runway area. Our aerial reporting reinforced concerns that the site lies within an important elephant movement corridor. @SautiSessions
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
I’m gathering perspectives on wildlife tourism at Nairobi National Park — as part of my “Whose Park? Whose Animals?” essay series. I want to hear from you.
👉 Take a survey: linktr.ee/WCheche
#WildlifeTourism #NairobiNationalPark #ConservationKE
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
TJNA at AfCoDD VI: Advancing Africa’s tax and debt justice agenda
TJNA joins key stakeholders at the 6th African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD VI), convened by @AFRODAD2011 , in Nairobi to advance Africa’s Common Position on Debt.
On 26 August, we will contribute to the session on:
📌 Launch of the Stop the Bleeding Campaign’s Black Paper
🕝 14:30–16:00 EAT
🗣️ @chenaimukumba, Executive Director, TJNA
On 27 August, we will contribute to we will contribute to the session on:
📌 Critical Minerals, Debt and Tax Justice in Africa’s Common Position
🗣️ @IshmaelZulu, Senior Policy Officer, TJNA
Time: 4:00–5:30 EAT
How can Africa leverage its resources and collective voice to secure greater bargaining power, fiscal space and economic sovereignty?
Read more: tjna.me/3UmOnYO
#TaxJusticeAfrica #StopTheBleeding #AfCoDDVI
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Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
.@KoinangeJeff the saddest image I’ve seen this year - We need to urgently recognize and treat this as a crisis for elephants and humans. 16 confirmed dead and rising. #HandsOffOurElephants
Communities deserve reliable public service that are responsive towards climate change.Public services are not luxurious they are rights .Progressive tax systems can provide governments with all resources needed to deliver.
#FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
Communities deserve reliable public service that are responsive towards climate change.Public services are not luxurious they are rights .Progressive tax systems can provide governments with all resources needed to deliver.
#FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
Billionaires don't build thriving societies alone, public infrastructure, workers and communities make wealth possible. It is only fair that extreme wealth contributes back.
#TaxTheSuperRich
#FightInequality
Add your voice act.gp/taxthesuperrich
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
Imagine what a fair tax on extreme wealth could help fund; Cleaner air, better public transport, reliable waste management, working hospitals, education and climate solutions.
These aren't luxuries-they're investments in all of us.
Act now act.gp/taxthesuperrich
#TaxTheSuperRich
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
Billionaires are estimated to be 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary citizens. Extreme wealth buys political power. That's not democracy that's oligarchy. #TaxTheSuperRich
#FightInequality
@Oxfam
We are busy auctioning the future of this country! Kenya is aprox 80% semi arid and we are busy clearing the only water catchment areas! #SaveKenyaForests
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
When I advocate for seed sovereignty in Kenya, this example from Nigeria illustrates it perfectly.
Communities must always control,breed,share,sell and exchange their indigenous seeds.
Indigenous seeds have been tested and tried through generations and our climate.
Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
We have a choice: either tax the very rich more or have widespread extreme poverty
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
America’s wealthiest dodge taxes by living off investments not subject to income tax, while essential workers pay more of their income than billionaires like Musk and Bezos.
The solution is: TAX THE RICH & fund the future hardworking Americans deserve.
cbsnews.com/news/income-taxe…
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden.
A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation.
And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale.
Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely.
That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation.
People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved.
Their companies rely on:
public roads
public courts
public contract enforcement
public utilities
public universities
public research grants
public internet infrastructure
public IP law
public military-protected trade routes
public education systems producing labor
The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework.
And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law.
The real debate is simple:
Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations?
That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.
Gerance Mutwol. retweeted
KRA is not playing with KTDA.
KTDA buys and sells tea leaves. Not tea. Tea ni chai. Chai ni ya kukunyua. Tea leaves ni majani ya chai. Kirui are we together?
Now,
KTDA was growing very fast. They wanted the Gulf people to taste the classical definition of proper Kenyan tea.
In 2008, they opened a branch in Dubai. Branch role, to market and sell tea in the Gulf.
In this setup, KRA was eating well. Because branches are like agents. They sell and send all profits back home.
So Dubai sold tea. Profits came back to Kenya. KTDA consolidated everything. And handed KRA a biig fat cheque.
KRA was extremely happy.
In 2014, KTDA got tired of tickling KRA.
They discovered.
- If they register a separate company in Dubai
- Gulf profits won’t be taxed in Kenya
- And Dubai tax was 0% too
So no taxes nowhere.
Directors said: Perfect. Do it. Fast!
As they are doing all this, they are unaware of one dangerous sentence sitting quietly in Kenyan tax law.
It reads:
• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya is a Kenyan resident company.
The Dubai company was registered. Life was good. Money was flowing. Zero income tax.
Next year, KRA noticed their cheque suddenly got thinner.
They asked KTDA Kenya, ndugu ni nini inaendelea hapa?
KRA got the shocking news of its life from KTDA.
- We do not have a problem paying taxes. But the Dubai branch has been upgraded to a full Dubai company. And profits are no longer coming home to be taxed.
KRA could not believe it. It returned to Times Tower. And embarked a fault finding mission.
In 2021, they found out:
- Directors of KTDA Dubai were all Kenyans
- They lived and drank tea in Kenya
- They controlled every single affair of KTDA Dubai from Kenya
Wakasema baas, nini ingine tunatafuta?
They invoked the one dangerous sentence. You remember it?
• Any company managed and controlled from Kenya is a Kenyan company.
KRA declared KTDA Dubai a Kenyan company
• Tax demanded 122M
KTDA ran to court with Dubai registration papers.
The judges questioned KRA why it wanted to harvest where Kenya did not plant?
KRA responded: My Lords, if your hen lays eggs in your neighbour’s land, is that egg yours or your neighbour’s?
Judges paused.
Then sided with KRA.
KTDA wakaabiwa walipe tax.
Case closed.
Lesson.
• Structure your offshore company properly.
• Or KRA will structure it for you.
