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Kenya: Another Fuel Price Rise Looms
Nation, 13 September 2018
The Energy Regulatory Commission is staring at a deep dilemma Friday as it readies to announce new pump prices amid the controversy over the 16 per cent value added tax on… Read more »
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Kenya: Fuel Tax - Now ERC, Henry Rotich Sued for Contempt
Nation, 11 September 2018
A Kisumu lobby group that secured temporary orders stopping implementation of 16 percent VAT on fuel has now sued the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and Treasury for contempt. Read more »
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Kenya: Kiunjuri Warns Millers Against Hiking Prices After 16% Fuel Tax
Capital FM, 11 September 2018
Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri has warned millers not to take advantage of the 16 per cent VAT on fuel to increase the price of flour. Read more »
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Kenya: Higher Fuel Prices in Kenya Split Low-Income Families
Nation, 10 September 2018
The implementation of punitive tax measures has brought out the other side of Kenyans that we have never seen before. Read more »
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Kenya: Uhuru Makes Low Key Return to Country Hurting From Fuel Tax Crisis
Nairobi News, 10 September 2018
President Uhuru Kenyatta returned to the country under the cover of darkness on Sunday amid public uproar over hiked tax on fuel products. Read more »
Another Fuel Price Hike Looms For Kenya
With the rise in international crude prices in August and the 16% Value Added Tax still in limbo but in force, the Energy Regulatory Commission may not have good news for Kenyans. Should the ERC announce an increase in the cost of petroleum product prices, the uproar is bound to be worse than the recent public outcry.
A customer fills a storage tank with diesel at a petrol station in Nyeri on September 6, 2018.
InFocus
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Kenyans are eagerly waiting for President Uhuru Kenyatta to suspend the tax that led to the countrywide fuel crisis. Now Kenyatta faces a hard decision - approve the controversial ... Read more »
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The fuel crisis has been blamed on oil marketers who refused to restock the all-important commodity in protest of VAT increase on petroleum products. President Uhuru Kenyatta has ... Read more »
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The High Court has declined to suspend the 16% VAT on petroleum products despite the Central Organisation for Trade Unions arguing that the National Treasury, Energy Regulatory ... Read more »
