Oil dealers petition MPs on 2019 tax

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An attendant fuels a car at a Rubis petrol station in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Oil marketers have petitioned Parliament to exempt them from the two percent withholding tax on their fuel supplies in a move they say will improve their thin profit margins.

The dealers, while appearing before the Finance and Planning Committee of the National Assembly, said that the requirement which started in 2019, has eaten into their earnings amid low margins due to price controls on fuel.

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