{"id":184439,"date":"2024-11-12T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-poultry-farmers-in-mombasa-protest-new-levy-call-for-unified-tax-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:54:04","slug":"kenya-poultry-farmers-in-mombasa-protest-new-levy-call-for-unified-tax-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-poultry-farmers-in-mombasa-protest-new-levy-call-for-unified-tax-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Poultry Farmers in Mombasa Protest New Levy, Call for Unified Tax Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Mombasa \u2014 <em>Poultry farmers in Mombasa and nearby regions are urging the Council of Governors (CoG) to address double taxation on poultry products, citing how inconsistent county tax policies increase costs and harm their competitiveness in local markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Farmers report that taxes on poultry products vary widely between counties, resulting in double taxation when transporting goods across county lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">For instance, Mombasa charges inspection fees, offloading fees per live chicken, transportation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411120171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mombasa \u2014 Poultry farmers in Mombasa and nearby regions are urging the Council of Governors (CoG) to address double taxation on poultry products, citing how inconsistent county tax policies increase costs and harm their competitiveness in local markets. Farmers report that taxes on poultry products vary widely between counties, resulting in double taxation when transporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":184440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6880,3030,4688,430,12638,495,257,6470,10273,2194,254,8352,9977],"class_list":["post-184439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-farmers","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-levy","tag-mombasa","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-poultry","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-unified"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}