Markup and Margin Calculator (Kenya)
Price a job from your cost, see the markup and the margin side by side, and get the VAT figure that goes on the invoice. Everything runs on your device.
- Free
- No sign-up
- Nothing uploaded
- Updated for 2026
- Last reviewed October 2026
- Reviewed by the Owoode team
- KSh KES
- VAT 16%
- KRA PIN
- A4
- English
Charge
Ksh 1,400.00
excluding VAT
- Cost
- Ksh 1,000.00
- Profit
- Ksh 400.00
- VAT at 16%
- Ksh 224.00
- Total on the invoice
- Ksh 1,624.00
That is a 40% markup and a 28.57% margin.
Price rules that affect your markup
Kenya caps the retail price of fuel. The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) sets maximum pump prices of super petrol, diesel and kerosene every month, for the period from the 15th to the 14th, under section 101(y) of the Petroleum Act 2019 and Legal Notice No. 192 of 2022. For 15 August to 14 September 2026 the Nairobi maximums were KSh 214.03 for petrol, KSh 217.86 for diesel and KSh 191.38 for kerosene per litre. A fuel retailer may sell below the ceiling but not above it.
Where any law fixes or regulates a price and the VAT on that supply is introduced or changed, the regulated price may be adjusted, but only by the amount of the tax change (VAT Act, section 64(2)).