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After avocado, KRA now trains its guns on sugarcane farmers

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Cane cutters harvest West Kenya sugar factory contracted sugarcane at Vuyika in Malava Sub-county in Kakamega county on July 12, 2021. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

The taxman now wants sugarcane farmers to enlist on its controversial tax payment platform e-Tims or else they will not be able to sell their produce.

Sugar millers have started tightening the noose on farmers to enlist in the system.

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