[kictanet] More support for springing startups

[Ahmed Mohamed Maawy]

Tech or no tech... A healthy economy has to support early stage startups I
would guess, of any form :) The strength of our economy is directly related
to how strong the SME sector will be in general.

Other than that, I think doing it to the tech sector alone can be under the
pretext of "we need to support tech". I think people were happy when Kibaki
brought down taxes for IT equipment under the pretext of "growing the ICT
sector". No one stood up to complain that that should happen for household
appliances...

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hi Listers,
>
> There is a deliberate move to ease the registration of businesses through
> the recently set up Business Registration Service Board under the office of
> the AG, lets hope that they will deliver as they are promising. The idea of
> giving tax incentives to tech start up's is awesome however we will see all
> sorts of start ups asking for tax breaks not just tech start ups. Something
> definitely has to change in regards to business registration in order to
> boost the ecosystem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rosemary Koech-Kimwatu
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> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Mildred Achoch via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> I have been asked by several people why I haven't  yet registered ROFFEKE
>> as a business. One word: taxes. If there was a grace period, then this
>> would encourage so many Kenyans to venture into business. Starting a
>> business is difficult enough without the added worry of taxes in year one
>> of operation. Regarding the business registration process, I think websites
>> like inc.co.ke make this process less hectic.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 1, 2016, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Listers,
>>>
>>> Allow me to post a question on the group - which is the question I had
>>> in mind to present to CS Joe Mucheru. Mine is a burning question on how to
>>> incentivize the startup eco-system, including:
>>>
>>>    1. How to make the business registration process a bit less hectic.
>>>    2. Tax breaks for some amount of time during which they operate to
>>>    pick up business and traction around this.
>>>
>>> Having managed the eco-system in Mombasa for a while, I think you end up
>>> finding potential kids and other chaps having ideas, but who can not enter
>>> into some contests or can not be eligible to enroll to specific support
>>> frameworks because of their lack of a business registration certificate.
>>> Which is sad, to see such potential go all the way down the drain because
>>> of financial or other constraints.
>>> There is a pipeline issue for potential startups here that needs to be
>>> resolved, but how can we work together around this?
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Ahmed Maawy*
>>> Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO)
>>> Ambassador - Open Knowledge
>>> Director - Startup Grind Mombasa
>>> Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer
>>> (KE) +254 714 960 627
>>> Skype: ultimateprogramer
>>>
>>> swahilibox.co.ke
>>> www.okfn.org <http://okfn.org/>
>>> startupgrind.com
>>> ajplus.net
>>> www.everylayer.com
>>>
>>
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-- 
*Ahmed Maawy*
Executive Director - SwahiliBox / M-Power (CBO)
Ambassador - Open Knowledge
Director - Startup Grind Mombasa
Software Developer - AJ+ / EveryLayer
(KE) +254 714 960 627
Skype: ultimateprogramer

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