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Budget cuts loom for MPs, counties and ministries

State departments, county governments and MPs are bracing for budget cuts as the National Treasury targets recurrent expenditure in a supplementary budgetseeking to plug a Sh600 billion budget deficit.

The Government has already frozen development expenditure and introduced a 16 per cent value added tax (VAT) petroleum products in an effort to channel scarce revenues to servicing debt repayments.

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