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General Motors projects flat growth as excise duty bites

Motor vehicle assembler, General Motors East Africa (GM), expects to record a flat growth this year should the Government continue to effect the new excise duty on locally-assembled vehicles.

GM Managing Director Rita Kavashe said the volatile exchange rates, high interest rates and now the excise duty will cut the growth of automobile industry from last year’s 15 per cent to a flat growth.

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