Kenya: Orengo Urges MPs to Reject Uhuru's 8% Counter Proposal On Fuel Tax

17 September 2018

Nairobi — Senate Minority Leader James Orengo has urged the National Assembly to reject President Uhuru Kenyatta's memorandum detailing his reservations to a moratorium on the 16 per cent VAT on petroleum products.

In his address to the nation on Friday, President Kenyatta said he had referred the amended Finance Bill 2018 back to the National Assembly and proposed reduction of the 16pc tax to 8 per cent, instead of suspending it for two more years.

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