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Uhuru calls urgent meeting to save proposal for reduced VAT on fuel

Anthony Maina

September 17, 2018 3:34 PM

The meeting will be held tomorrow morning

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President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Tuesday morning preside over a Jubilee Parliamentary Group meeting at State House as he seeks to convince MPs to allow his proposal for 8 percent VAT on fuel products.

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“Mheshimiwa please note that we will hold a Parliamentary Group Meeting on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at State House Nairobi at 8:00 am sharp,” read an invitation message by Majority leader Aden Duale.

President Kenyatta last week declined to pass the Finance Bill 2018 which would have seen VAT on fuel suspended for the next two years.

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While sending the bill back to Parliament, the head of state called for an introduction of 8 percent VAT, instead of the 16 percent rate initially introduced by Treasury.

The proposal is said to have divided MPs, with several members from both Jubilee and NASA vowing to scrap VAT altogether.

NASA is also expected to hold a similar meeting to lobby its parliamentarians into supporting the President’s proposal.

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