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Treasury approves tax exemption on USAID-donated ARVs

The National Treasury building, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The Treasury has approved tax exemption on anti-retroviral drugs donated by the USAID, which arrived in Kenya on January 18, 2021.

This comes after the Kenyan Government slapped the donor with a Sh90 million import tax bill on the consignment valued at Sh2.1 billion.

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