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It is a mixed bag for the agricultural sector after MPs made major amendments to the Finance Bill, 2024.
At a press conference on Tuesday after the Kenya Kwanza Parliamentary Group Meeting, Finance and National Planning Committee Chairman Kuria Kimani announced the significant scrapping of several provisions in the Bill, including a 35 per cent excise duty on packaging materials, which would have affected value-added products such as tea.
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