{"id":137951,"date":"2026-04-16T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/parliament-begins-scrutiny-of-bill-aimed-at-lowering-fuel-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:02:52","slug":"parliament-begins-scrutiny-of-bill-aimed-at-lowering-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/parliament-begins-scrutiny-of-bill-aimed-at-lowering-fuel-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament begins scrutiny of Bill aimed at lowering fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 16 \u2013 A Bill seeking to amend the Value Added Tax has been formally introduced in the National Assembly through a legislation process known as First Reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah is seeking to lower VAT on petroleum products from 16 percent to 8 percent for a period of three months.<\/p>\n<p>The Bill was refereed to the House Finance and Planning Committee where it will undergo parliamentary scrutiny and public participation before it can be enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after public uproar after the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority, adjusted increased by Sh28.69 per litre, while Diesel has recorded a steeper rise of Sh40.30 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Following the adjustment, a litre of Super Petrol will now retail at Sh206.97 per litre, Diesel Sh206.84 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto yesterday announced rolled out a package of interventions to manage fuel price pressures amid global market volatility.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Apr 16 \u2013 A Bill seeking to amend the Value Added Tax has been formally introduced in the National Assembly through a legislation process known as First Reading. Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah is seeking to lower VAT on petroleum products from 16 percent to 8 percent for a period of three months. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}