{"id":913724,"date":"2026-06-18T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/treasury-speaks-on-possible-smartphone-price-hikes-from-june-after-25-tax\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:13:38","slug":"treasury-speaks-on-possible-smartphone-price-hikes-from-june-after-25-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/treasury-speaks-on-possible-smartphone-price-hikes-from-june-after-25-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Speaks on Possible Smartphone Price Hikes From June After 25% Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns have been raised that the Finance Bill 2026 smartphone tax could make essential devices more expensive and less accessible for many users&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenyans.co.ke\/news\/123302-treasury-explains-25-excise-duty-smartphones-finance-bill-2026\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Kenyans.co.ke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns have been raised that the Finance Bill 2026 smartphone tax could make essential devices more expensive and less accessible for many users&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1741,192,22197],"tags":[11591,6115],"class_list":["post-913724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-speaks","category-sports","category-treasury","tag-speaks","tag-treasury"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}