Roads agency defies fuel tax to collect Sh33.4b in six months

Pump attendant serves a vehicle at a fueling station in Kisumu on September 02,2018. Fuel prices that have gone up are likely to affect transport costs across the country. [Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard]

Despite the punitive eight per cent value-added tax on fuel products, the Government collected Sh33.4 billion from motorists for maintenance of roads in the first half of the year.