A looming cooking gas shortage is expected to hit the country in the coming days after the government raised taxes on imported LPG by more than Ksh.38,000.**This has seen trucks bringing in the LPG being denied entry from* *Tanzania until they pay the new taxes which the traders say they received no notice of**According to the importers, Kenya Revenue Authority imposed the tax without giving them any notice, increasing the levies from $605 (Ksh.70,000) per ton of LPG to $930 (Ksh.108,000) per ton of LPG, a jump of 325 dollars per truck, a charge the importers say they will push on to the consumers.
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