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Team wants taxes on tea scrapped

Tea farmers follow when Senate Ad Hoc Committee on tea visited farmers in Kianjokoma market, Embu County. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

A Senate team has called for scrapping of 43 taxes imposed on tea farmers to maximise profits.

The chairman of the ad hoc committee on tea, Aaron Cheruiyot, yesterday said the taxes on the tea value chain have increased operation costs which is eating into farmers' earnings.

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