$100 MILLION YOUTUBE FUND IN SUPPORT OF BLACK CONTENT CREATORS

These Covid-19 pandemic times has seen an interesting turn of everyone turning to social media for their businesses or starting channels on cooking, make up, fashion, memes, challenges the list is endless. The popular platforms are TikTok, Instagram. YouTube is not being left behind, in light of George Floyd's death, they are launching a $100 million fund to amplify the voices of black creators on its platform by developing talent and funding new shows. The fund will support the creation of new YouTube original programming and help with the development of black creators and artists.

KENYA'S 2.91 TRILLION BUDGET FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2020/2021

Treasury CS Ukur Yattani, unveils the 2020/2021 2.91trillion budget yesterday 11th June 2020 to the National Assembly for approval. The final spending estimates are slightly lower than the present Ksh 3 trillion budget approved in December's first supplementary budget.The theme was on "Stimulating the Economy to safeguard livelihood, streamline jobs and Steer Economic Recovery." This article will touch on the budget for Education, Youth, Persons with Disabilities and the highlights of the budget.

VALUE ADDED TAX - DIGITAL MARKET PLACE SUPPLY - TO TAX YOU FOR YOUR MOBILE APPS ET AL

KRA - The Kenya Revenue Authority plans to tax every Kenyan downloading e-books, movies and mobile apps. In the Value added tax on the Digital market place supply, the regulations proposes the taxation on news, magazines, journals, TV shows streaming, music, podcasts, online gaming, software, drivers,website filters, and firewalls. Other targeted services include website hosting, online data warehousing, file-sharing, and cloud storage services.