Beyond Caesar’s Grasp: Setting Constraints on Government’s Taxing Hand

Description

Chapter 1 looks at the relationship between fiscal law and human rights, at the taxing principles in relation to taxpayers’ fundamental rights envisaged under the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Further, it questions the extent to which a government can tax its people.
Chapter 2 explores the need for accountability of public officials. It relates to electoral rigging, manipulation, or distortion attributed to public officials during presidential elections in Kenya.
Chapter 3 interrogates the plight of Kenyan/African domestic workers in Gulf Region states. It questions the rampant violations of their human rights by their employers.
Chapter 4 interrogates spousal homicide cases in non-confrontational circumstances. The Chapter argues that traditionally, women have pleaded the Battered Women Syndrome to paint themselves as victims and men as perpetrators to obtain lenient sentence. Further, it argues that in the modern world, men should also benefit from Battered Persons Syndrome.
Chapter 5 revisits the 2007/08 post- election violence in Kenya. It proposes state criminality at the International Criminal Court and formation of a National Trust Fund.