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Relief for avocado farmers as committee sits to review e-TIMS requirement

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John Ndegwa, a farmer and Chair of the Bungoma Avocado Farmers Association (BAFA) in his farm located Bilibili area in Bungoma County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

A stakeholders committee will sit today to seek a 'temporary solution' to remove the Electronic Tax Invoice Management System (e-TIMS) requirement on avocado farmers.

This was announced yesterday after Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua directed that a meeting involving Cabinet Secretaries for Finance, Cooperatives, Agriculture and Trade meet today to come up with a framework that will exempt primary farmers from the e-TIMS requirement as contained in Section 23 of the Finance Act 2023.

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