20%? Is this even real ? Most of the companies not related to gambling pay lower than 10% but not the same in Kenya when it comes to the sports gambling. Now the biggest football clubs have joined hands to oppose this rule.
It's such a bad time to implement it but you can't blamer a government that wants to have money coming in times of pandemic, but one of their reasons to prohibit people from gambling is a bad one, if they don't want people to gamble in their country they should ban gambling, they really want to justify their additional taxes to these gambling companies, which is also suffering from this pandemic.
the government will often try to squeeze somewhere instead of shrinking the size of the public machine and their salary sizes.
it's just how it is
considering the global cenario I'd expect taxes to raise on the next decades as more and more money is bridged to crypto and alternative systems