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Reconsider proposal to up tax on power generators

Amid pleas for tax reductions to cushion Kenyans against the effects of Covid-19, a proposal to impose a 14 per cent value added tax on power generators is ill informed.

The Electricity Sector Alliance of Kenya has come out, and rightly so, to oppose the proposed amendments contained in the Tax (Amendment) Bill 2020 which, if approved, will result in the burden of higher costs of power being passed on to consumers.

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