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Kenya offers textile firms tax incentives to create jobs

Mwangi Kiunjuri, the Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning PHOTO:COURTESY

Kenya has started offering tax incentives to clothing companies, a key part of its under-performing manufacturing sector, to create jobs and provide affordable new clothes for shoppers.

Executives in the textiles industry said the changes included allowing them to sell 20 per cent of their annual production locally without sales taxes and without paying import duties on the materials and equipment used to produce the garments.

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