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More pain as Treasury trains eyes on farmers with new tax

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Transporters offload milk at Kaptama Dairy Farmers' Cooperative Society plant in Mt. Elgon, Bungoma. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

The government is set to hit farmers with new taxes as it looks for ways to grow tax revenues.

The National Treasury in new proposals on how to increase tax collections between now and 2027 plans to introduce a five per cent withholding tax on produce that farmers deliver to cooperatives and other large organisations that aggregate farmers' produce.

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