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MPs seek to save Kenyans from high tax on fuel

National Assembly Minority Whip Junet Mohammed. [file, Standard]

Kenyans could be saved the burden of shouldering high taxes on petroleum products if MPs approve a proposal by Minority Whip Junet Mohammed.

The implementation of the contentious 16 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) contained in the Finance Bill, 2018, could be deferred until September 2020 if the legislators heed to public pressure.

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