Muturi Recalls MPs For Special Sitting After Uhuru’s Finance Bill Rejection

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi has through a special gazette notice recalled MPs from their break for two sittings where he is to tell them of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s message in respect of his reservations to the Finance Bill.

The sittings have been slated for next week Tuesday and Thursday after Uhuru’s rejection of the finance Bill 2018 which the MPs passed in his absentia.

Now that the President has sent it back to National Assembly, MPs will require two-thirds majority vote or 232 MPs to overturn the presidential disapproval.

The Bill was passed 14 days ago by MPs after the Minority Chief Whip successfully moved an amendment meant to suspend 16 per cent VAT on petroleum products until September 2020 to cushion Kenyans from the high cost of living.

However, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich effected the tax on September 1 leading to an increase in fuel prices

VAT was first introduced on petrol, diesel, kerosene and jet fuel in the VAT Act of 2013, with a three-year grace period that would have seen it come into force in 2016 when it was once again deferred to September 2018. 

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