Uganda Revenue Authority has in the past two years charged, Kenyan Chicken meat export a 25 percent of taxes - 18 percent of VAT, 1 percent of Railway development levy and 6 percent Withholding Tax.
Our propose is to the government is to impose tax or Ugandan government to waive 19 percent tax on VAT and Railway Development Levy ," argued Monica Wanjiru, the President of Federation of Kenya Poultry Farmers (FKPF).
This means that the Uganda poultry products have a free access to the Kenyan market while the Kenyan products are hindered from access to Uganda through Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) or imposition of domestic taxes (VAT, withholding taxes or railway levies).
Uganda retaliated by banning importation of Kenyan Poultry products into their country.
In a technical paper presented to Department of Livestock in December 2019, and developed jointly by Livestock stakeholders, it proved that Hudani Manji Holdings (Yokuku), the Ugandan poultry producer that has been exporting product to Kenya is effectively dumping products into the Kenyan market.
