New Kenyan Regulations Target Corporate Content, Tax Filings, and Cybercrime Law - November 2025

Kenya's National Assembly has passed the Local Content Bill 2025, which could see CEOs jailed and companies fined for not adhering to local content requirements for foreign companies. Concurrently, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) announced that from January 1, 2026, it will begin validating income and expenses declared by taxpayers on the iTax platform against its internal data, starting with 2025 returns. Meanwhile, Parliament is addressing challenges to the new Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2024. The National Assembly Clerk claimed that petitions challenging the law contain "fake inserts" with clauses never present in the original bill, which are distorting public understanding and undermining trust.