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    "content": "The supply of taxable services to Special Economic Zone enterprises, developers and operators licensed under the Special Economic Zone Act. Clause 5 deals with Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions. We are deleting part of initial exemptions which were in the list but we are transferring them to the zero-rating section. The issue of vaccines and medicines is a very serious matter and having been exempted initially, it was still found that the exemption still leaves some cost to be borne by the final manufacturer which will again be transferred to local citizens. When we deliberated in the Committee, we agreed that we should zero-rate for the manufacturers of vaccines, veterinary medicine as we have listed there. What we are doing in Clause 5 is we are deleting them from exemptions so that we zero-rate them. That is critical for our nation. During our discussions, we also made proposals on biogas and leasing of biogas producing equipment. My Committee proposed that we are going to green energy and, therefore, we should make it accessible to Kenyans so that we help Kenya move to green energy. We are also proposing that we exempt inputs or raw materials, whether purchased locally or imported, for the manufacturers of agricultural productions. This country is going for mechanization. We also want to encourage people to manufacture locally. So, we agreed to exempt raw materials for those who want to manufacture and assemble agricultural implements. We passed the Special Economic Zones Bill the other day. We need to encourage investors to come and invest in these Special Economic Zones to improve our exports. As part of the benefits to these Special Economic Zones, we need to exempt supply of goods to special economic enterprises and operators. This is a serious Government policy to ensure that we encourage as many investors as possible to come to this country. We are also saying that supply of sewerage services by the national Government, or county governments is a government to government arrangement. It also applies to the supply to Special Economic Zone."
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