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[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania cuts fuel pump prices while Kenya falters​

SATURDAY OCTOBER 09 2021​

An attendant at a petrol station in Nairobi. The energy regulatory authority is expected to review pump prices. PHOTO | FILE

Summary​

• On September 14, the price for the commodity rose to a historic high with the problem compounded by the government’s removal of a subsidy designed to protect consumers from high fuel prices.
• The government removed monthly subsidies of Ksh7.1 ($0.06) per litre of super petrol, Ksh9.89 ($0.08) per litre of diesel and Ksh11.36 ($0.10) per litre of kerosene, pushing fuel prices to an all-time high.
• Last week, the Parliamentary committee on Finance and Planning which had been tasked to review the necessary legislations to bring down the cost of fuel within 14 days asked for seven more days to complete the work arguing that it also needed to probe the demurrage costs on fuel vessels at the port of Mombasa in order to dismantle cartels of dealers preying on consumers.

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Kenyans face another fuel price shocker this week as MPs dilly-dally in tabling legislative changes to cushion consumers from price increases against a backdrop of excessive government taxes and soaring crude oil prices in the international market that hit a three-year high of $83 per barrel last week.

This comes as regional counterparts such as Tanzania reduced and abolished certain fuel taxes, and reviewed the methodology of taxing bulk fuel imports to reduce the price of petroleum and petroleum products to lower the cost of living and put the country on a strong path for industrial growth and investments.

Kenya’s energy regulator Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority will on October 14 announce new fuel prices for the period October 15 to November 14 with fears that the prices could remain at the elevated levels or rise.

On September 14, the price for the commodity rose to a historic high with the problem compounded by the government’s removal of a subsidy designed to protect consumers from high fuel prices.

The government removed monthly subsidies of Ksh7.1 ($0.06) per litre of super petrol, Ksh9.89 ($0.08) per litre of diesel and Ksh11.36 ($0.10) per litre of kerosene, pushing fuel prices to an all-time high.

Last week, the Parliamentary committee on Finance and Planning which had been tasked to review the necessary legislations to bring down the cost of fuel within 14 days asked for seven more days to complete the work arguing that it also needed to probe the demurrage costs on fuel vessels at the port of Mombasa in order to dismantle cartels of dealers preying on consumers.

The committee has recommended reduction of value added tax (VAT) on fuel to four percent from eight percent and reduction in petroleum development levy to Ksh2.90 ($0.02) from Ksh5.40 ($0.04) per litre of fuel.The committee also recommended reduction in gross margins for oil marketing firms to Ksh9 ($0.08) from Ksh12 ($0.10) per litre of fuel and that the inflation adjustment on excise duty imposed on fuel imports for this year be suspended. It also wants this inflation adjustment on fuel taxes to be done after every two years.

Barely two weeks ago, the Kenyan High Court suspended implementation of the annual inflation adjustment levy of 4.97 percent, which would have seen a further increase in prices of fuel with effect from October 1.

Adverse effects​

The Senate said the increase has impacted on the economy, raising the cost of living and cost of doing business on already overburdened citizens grappling with the effects of Covid-19. “This increase has outraged Kenyans who bear the brunt of the effects of the increase such as higher costs of transportation, higher food prices, high cost of electricity and other adverse effects on most sectors of the economy,” according to the Senate’s Order Paper for September 23, 2021.

Inflation rate for August increased to 6.57 percent from 6.55 percent in July caused by a sharp increase in the prices of food and cooking gas fuel, according to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.“We have talked about the difficulties of increasing the cost of doing business and what that big jump in fuel prices will do is that it will now cause a situation where everything else goes up,” said Mike Macharia, chairman of the Kenya Association of Hotelkeepers and Caterers.

In Tanzania, the government reviewed the levy on the use of port infrastructure (wharfage) charged at $10 per metric tonne plus VAT. The levy will now be charged in Tanzania shillings and was reduced to Tsh15 from Tsh22 with no VAT.

“Part of this was for building the marine oil receiving buoy and so the proposed amount of Tsh15 ($0.01) per litre can be used for maintenance,” said Godfrey Chibulunje, Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority Acting Director General. Tanzania Revenue Authority’s Customs processing fees will be charged Tsh20 million ($8,651.71) per shipload, doing away with the Tsh4.8 ($0.002) per litre.

The country receives seven shiploads of fuel every month. The same will also be applied to the charges levied by the Weights and Measures Agency, from Tsh1 ($0.0004) per litre to Tsh7 million ($3,028.10) per shipload. The government also abolished service levy charged on bulk fuel storage facilities run by oil companies. The levy charged to check fuel purity was reduced to Tsh7 ($0.003) from Tsh14 ($0.006) per litre.

Additional reporting by Dorothy Ndalu

Tanzania cuts fuel pump prices while Kenya falters

The committee has recommended reduction of value added tax (VAT) on fuel to four percent from eight percent.

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[Geza Ulole]

 

[Shebby01]

Ungekua unaelewa airline business hungeandika huu ujinga....vipi zili ndege za mbeleni mbna hampigi nazo hata regional routes?

Sababu wewe ni muelewa tupe stastics za RASM na CASM,kuanzia revenues za airlines Africa mashariki tuone your current stand itakua vizuri ukitupa update s bingwa🙂

 

[coodip1]

Ndege zenu zinaozea kwenye hangars na unapiga makelele hapa. Afadhali wenye wana ndege za mikopo ila zinapiga routes.

Lakini hatulipi interest ya mkopo wewe unapaki kwenye hangars na bado unalipa interest na delayed payment means more interest

 

[Lusematic]

Kule COSAFA tunaongoza pia.

hii si final kule?

 

[Lusematic]

Timu ya wanawake ya Tanzania imetwaa kombe la COSAFA 2021.

we done,kazi nzuri pongezi za kutosha,,

TZ stand up

 

[Lusematic]

Leo nlikua nacheki cosafa, aisee hawa dada zetu wako so organized jambo ambalo tunalimiss upande wetu. Tungekua organized na kutuliza akili kama dada zetu tungekua mbali sana

Upande wa TAIFA STARS ni jipu kubwa sana,,hawana future ya mikakati endelevu..

 

[Lusematic]

Haaaaaaahhh ila huyo kipusa kwa upuuzi usije kuta ana zindua filamu yake

inaitwa WOMEN PRESIDENT picha linaanza anatoa hotuba kwenye mkutano wa umoja mataifa,kisha kikundi cha waarifu kitavamia jengo zima la mkutano na jiji zima,
ila atatokea komando mmoja tu machachali wakitanzania aitwaye HUSNA SEYEED SEIF na kuwakomboa filamu itaisha kama ifuatavyo:
HUSNA atatunukiwa tuzo ya heshima pale marekani new york kisha Presidaa atapanda ndege na makanda wake kurudi Tz..

 

[Lusematic]

Ila kenya inapiga safari mara 70 ya air Tanzania......mibongolala mnafaa muelewe air Tanzania haipo hata top 10 airlines in Africa. Eti airline safari ndefu inapiga ni safari ya chato ndo ya kulinganishwa na airlines zinapiga safari hadi za ulaya na marekani. Sijawai kuona watu wajinga kama watanzania wa hapa JF

aliyekuambia ATCL haipigi safari za n'nje ya bara la africa ni nani?

endeleeni kushangaa shangaa kimazoea hivyo hivyo,ukija kushtuka chali

 

[Simon]

 

[Geza Ulole]

 

[Geza Ulole]

 

[Mashashola]

Kichwa yako yenyew mafiii...

Zanzibar sio Tanzania

 

[Sama boy 255]

Zanzibar sio Tanzania

Unajua hilo Neno Tanzania lilipatikanaje.?

 

[Bantugbro]

Yaani TZ wanashika mataji yote matatu ya soka la wanawake ktk ukanda wa COSAFA, U17, U20 na Senior level, incredible experience, 🙂

 

[toptorn]

Huko Kwa wadada hakuna mambo ya uSimba na uYanga.. Ndio maana wako organized na Kuna team spirits.

Hao vijeba Kwanza kuanzia viongozi wa federation, wa timu na walimu wanabebwa na siasa za hizi timu mbili... Interest yao kubwa ni kufurahisha wanachama wa hizi klabu mbili. Sio kujenga timu ya taifa na kukuza soka letu.. Bure kabisaa..

Kweli kabisa, hata uwepo wa Azam ni kutokana na mapenzi ya Bakhresa tu kama ingekua mwingine angeshagivup siku nyingi. Hata Mo huenda angeanzisha timu yake sema alipoona hizi figisu za simba na yanga akaona ataloose

 

[toptorn]

Sioni ni kwanini Tanzania tusitoboe kwenye biashara ya Anga wakati nchi yetu ni top destination in the world, sioni kwanini tusitoboe wakati sisi pekee ukanda huu ndio tuna international airports 3 ambazo zinajaa ndege za moja kwa moja za abiria na sio ndege za misaada za UN kama jirani zetu wanaotegemea uwanja mmoja, sioni kwanini tusitoboe wakati nchi yetu ndio iko kwenye position nzuri kibiashara na hivyo kuwa na abiria wengi wa Transit. Sioni kwanini tusitoboe wakati biashara ya mizigo ina potential kubwa kwa kuwa na mizigo mingi ya exports kama nyama, samaki, nafaka na mbogamboga.

Ninachoona ni ongezeko la ukubwa wa Terminals zetu ili kukidhi ongezeko la abiria ambalo litakuja kwa kasi sana baada ya dunia kufunguka na sisi kuongeza idadi ya ndege. Naiona ATCL ikiwa ni giant kwenye biashara ya Anga Afrika huku mashirika mengine yaliyosafiria nyota yetu kuanguka vibaya. Naiona Tanzania ambayo ni kinara kwenye biashara ya usafirishaji na Logisticts Afrika. Muda unaongea.

Soon Mwanza ikikamilika tutakua na 4 International Airports zenye direct flights to n fro abroad then tukimaliza MSALATO itakua ya tano, TZ ndio natural supapawa wengine wanafosi tu 😀

 

[Sama boy 255]

Wenyewe wana msemo wao wanadai eti Ooh Dar es Salaam ni three blue towers tu, wanajifariji na picha za uswahilini, owky hizi hapa ni picha za maeneo kadhaa DSM bila Kariakoo wala CBD,

Dar es Salaam sio ya kawaida, picha zote nilizoweka hapo juu hakuna hata picha moja ambayo utaniona CBD wala Kariakoo kwa mbali, DSM ni kubwa sana, na hapo hakuna gated community wala real estate sijui za minority kama kule North..

 

[Lwiva]

Sasa umenunua ndege kwa pesa zako na Zina piga loss mjingana uko hapa Mara Kenya this Mara Kenya that

Faida ya ndege siyo nauli tu mtalii akija anakuja kutumia pesa na kuleta fedha za kigeni mfano mtalii katumia ndege kuja tz nauli ya go and return jumla tsh4mil = ksh200000 hivi lakini ana $50,000 za kutumia nchini hivyo hizo dola zinabadilisha na kupatia tz pesa za kigeni arafu pia hizo hela anazitumia nchini kwa shughuri mbalimbali hizo zote ni faida,
Faida nyingine ni kuitangaza na kujenga jina la nchi

 

[Lwiva]

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