Nairobi, April 7 -- In an opinion article published in the Business Daily on December 15, 2025, I cautioned that provisions of the newly enacted Standards Levy Order 2025 risked disproportionately penalising small and medium enterprises (SMEs) while providing an unintended fiscal cushion for large corporations.

By March 11, 2026, a coalition of business membership organisations (BMOs), including Kepsa, FPEAK, and EAGC, issued a joint statement echoing these concerns.

While I support the substance of their critique regarding the levy cap, diminished competitiveness, and inflationary risks, we must address a fundamental procedural failure: the private sector's response arrived only after the legal notice had been gazetted. This post-facto...