MPs agree to IMF conditions with new budget directives

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The Standard | by Dominic Omondi


Members of Parliament have agreed to some of the tough conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) including the scrapping of tax breaks and exemptions.

In a report by the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Budget Policy Statement for 2021-22 and the Medium Term Debt Management Strategy, the lawmakers also asked the National Treasury to expedite restructuring of highly indebted State corporations, a condition that had earlier been issued by the IMF for the country’s access to a Sh262 billion facility…

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