{"id":7573,"date":"2022-05-12T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T10:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2022-05-13T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T07:13:07","slug":"cooking-gas-prices-expected-to-rise-again-as-government-imposes-new-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7573","title":{"rendered":"Cooking gas prices expected to rise again as government imposes new tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220512_130951-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220512_130951-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220512_130951-1-480x264.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 720px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220512_130951.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7576,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/7576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}