Nairobi MCAs have adopted a five-year Tariffs and Pricing Policy that for the first time requires every fee, from parking to business permits, to be based on the actual cost of providing each service.
This sets the stage for the county to grown it’s revenue with traders, motorists and land owners expected to did deeper into their pockets.
The County will now be free to include in it’s finance bill,new tax charges that will see parking services increased from Sh300 to 520
The Unified Business Permit
The policy also collapses the county’s patchwork of trader licences into a Unified Business Permit, folding in fire, health and waste-collection levies that businesses currently pay separately.
The permit pegs the unit cost of a trade license at KSh 74,743, which is about 15 percent higher than the average charged under the 2023 Finance Act.
According to the document, the value of the construction and maintenance of 16,900 parking slots is KSh 3.54 billion. Spread over 20 years, that translates to an annual capital cost of roughly KSh 177 million.
It further estimates that it costs KSh 569 to provide a single parking service in Nairobi, forming the baseline for setting future parking tariffs.
The County government also estimates that it will cost KSh 79,715 to approve a single building plan, a figure drawn from an annual outlay of KSh 4.52 billion spent on the service.
The tally folds in salaries, ICT systems, sanitation, inspection vehicles and insurance. Under the new tariff policy, that average cost per applicant will become the baseline for setting future building-approval fees.
