America, Kenya tax row freeze Sh1 billion HIV drugs

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Business Daily | by Lynet Igadwah


Life-saving HIV and tuberculosis drugs worth Sh1.1billion are stuck at the port of Mombasa following a tax tussle between the Kenyan government and the US Agency for International Development (USAid).

The consignment of medication has been lying at the port since January 18 after the State handed a Sh90 million tax bill to a privately owned American firm, Chemonics which had imported it on behalf of USAid.

Kenya argued that the import arrangement flouted the tax waiver policies on government-to-government donations and that Chemonics had…

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[Image source: P. Bauermeister / Bloomberg News]

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