ࡱ> _a^q ,bjbjt+t+ )dAA]l l l l l l l  8 1 " T|0000000u2i40l  0^l l ^^^l l 0 l l l l 0^^D*l l 0 PhU ^0&ϲʹ'S SEMINAR ON ECOMMERCE GENEVA22ND APRIL, 2002 REVENUE IMPLICATIONS OF ECOMMERCE FOR DEVELOPMENT PRESENTED BY: JAMES M. KIIRU DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL TRADE MIN OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY BOX 43137 NAIROBI EMAIL: kextrade@africaonline.co.ke REVENUE IMPLICATIONS OF ECOMMERCE FOR DEVELOPMENT INTRODUCTION E commerce is a fairly new means of trade, which is rapidly evolving, and providing impetus trade development In Kenya the current focus for the government is to endeavour to develop policies that recognise the electronic aspects of trade in transformation of the economy into a modern market oriented one. This is through various initiatives and government policy statements. e.g. f& Poverty reduction strategy paper of 1999 (PRSP) f& Telecommunication and Postal sector policy statement of 1999 f& Kenya's approach to new partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD). f& Sector Working Group on Information Technology under the Ministry of Finance and Planning STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT OF ECOMMERCE IN KIENYA In Kenya the access to the Intenet is exclusively controlled by Jambo net, which is a subsidiary of the state controlled TELKOM Kenya. Jambo net sells the bandwidth to various Internet services providers (ISP'S) which have to be licensed by Communications Commission of Kenya (C.C.K.) Similarly Telkom has the exclusive rights for the provision of international Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) facilities. The following statistics is an indication of the use of ecommerce in Kenya. f& Tele density is pegged at 4 and 0.16 lines per 100 people in Urban and Rural areas respectively. f& Currently there are 100 licensed ISP'S but only 3 0 are operational. f& Internet access is limited to about 200,000 people in a country whose population is around 30million. f& Email accounts are about 50,000 f& 50% of the users are multinational corporations, international corporations and NGO'S. f& Government and educational institutions comprise of less than 5% of the users. f& The number of .ke domains was about 1,700 as at 2001. f& Most websites are run by exporters of products or services. I.e. i) Tours & Travel 50% ii) Hotels and Restaurants 20% iii) Arts and Handicrafts 16% iv) Agriculture 4% v) Manufacturing 1% vi) Shipping 1% From the above information it is clear that the level of usage of the Internet is relatively low. The challenges of e-commerce development in Kenya include:- f& Policy framework on e-commerce has not been developed. f& No legal framework though plans are underway to adapt the UNCITRAL model law. f& Telecommunication infrastructure is relatively developed and mostly limited to urban areas since in rural areas access to electricity, telephone and financial services is limited. GOVERNMENT REVENUE Kenya as a developing country relies heavily on import duties to supplement government revenue to meet various development objectives as outlined in the medium term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) which is a new approach to planning and budgeting. The following table reflects the revenue accrued from taxation: Ksh million1996/971997/981998/99**1999/2000**2000/2001+DIRECT TAXATION:Income tax 48,375.055,577.955,234.853,317.054,796.1TOTAL 48,375.055,577.955,234.853,317.054,796.1INDIRECT TAXATION:VAT on Domestic manu14,541.817,748.021,114.822,416.628,299.5VAT on Imports15,308.2 16,720.118,090.018,527.623,290.8Import Duties 22,594.027,167.128,444.028,605.233,797.7Excise Duties 23,687.228,381.628,733.228,493.129,575.1Trading Licenses 212.0140.5120.082.8161.6Lincenses and fees undertraffic Act other Taxes,718.6832.8834.61,562.61,630.0Licenses and Duties 1,592.41,324.72,957.21,475.22,028.5TOTAL 78,654.292,314.8100,293.8101,163.0118,783.0OEIHER REVENUE & INCOME:Compulsory Fees, fine &Penalties 1,762.81,895.5 1,861.02,093.13,270.1Income from property 4,863.44,443.86,407.25,988.46,452.8Current Transfers 204.2221.7212.2270.41,193.8Sales of goods & services 10,507.410,875.5 9,938.88,716.610,518.6Others2,716.81,816.5 6,004.08,992.85,324.2TOTAL 20,054.619,253.124,423.226,061.226,759.5TOTAL 147,083.8167,145.8179,951.8180,541.2200,338.7MEMORANDUM ITEM:Loan Repayments toGovernment1,155.4101.4327.8418.3777.1* This account refers to current receipts as well as A in A. Which is distributed under various heads including sales of goods and services. ** Provisional. + Estimates. As shown in the table above indirect taxes contributes slightly over a half of the total revenue contributed Le. 50.1% and 59.3% of total revenue in 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 respectively, while direct taxes contributed 29.5% and 27.4%. Since 1997 import duties have shown an upward trend though as from the year 2000 the increase have been marginal. This can be attributed to the liberalisation measures being undertaken both at regional and international level and particularly within the COMESA as member states adopt the Free Trade Area. The growth of ecommerce has great potential to expand markets, productivity and competitiveness and therefore the government has a big challenge on how it will tax the increased revenue arising from etransactions. On the other hand Kenya's competitive edge is agriculture and manufacturing sectors and priority concern is to enhance access to the internet improve productivity and therefore revenue considerations are not a key issue. The major challenges include:  f& Technical and institution capacity to monitor e-transaction. f& Human resource development. f& Compliance and enforcement especially in the informal sector. f& Communications Infrastructure. E-COMMERCE AND TRIPS In Kenya the intellectual property rights are governed by the industrial property Act which compliant to the ϲʹ Agreement on TRIPS. Under the new Customs Valuation Agreement which has been in operation in Kenya since Jan 2000, it is possible to track down etransactions, however the onus of monitoring infringement of intellectual property rights rests with the owners and this has been a big challenge in Kenya. With the exception Music Copyright Society Kenya (MCSK), other rights holders do not have associations. CURRENT DEBATE OF E-COMMERCE The government recognises the important role that ecommerce can play in trade development and particularly poverty alleviation. In this regard a National Task Force on ecommerce was established in 1999 with the mandate of enhancing the use of ecommerce. The task force has now been re-constituted and registered as Nationwide Task Force on E-Commerce (NTFECOM). These initiatives have been strengthened further through the ITC's E-Trade Bridge Programme for Kenya which is spearheaded by NTFECOM. Through this programme Kenya has been able to identify assets and liabilities and focus now is to translate the E-Trade Programme into a policy document for submission to the government. CURRENT PRIORITY ISSUES f& Policies for facilitating e-trade. f& Telecommunication infrastructure. f& Legal and regulatory framework. f& Financial environment. f& Human and Institutional capacity building. f& E-commerce support network. In conclusion there is need to continue with the debate and further analytical work including impact studies to get a clear picture of implications of E-Commerce on development for developing countries in fulfilment of the Doha Development Agenda as spelt out in the Ministerial Declaration. 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