Come on!!! A third??? You must be living in moi era!!! That said, good use of the resources is very important and we have seen the recent and current government putting a lot of effort to achieve this. Its a tough journey but the country has made good steps. The country now needs to take off. What is wrong in it asking us to contribute a little more

Inaitwa tax rebates works perfectly elsewhere in the world. Farmers pay taxes but upon proving that indeed they are farmers they get the taxes back, this ensures many if not all citizen pay their taxes.

On how every farmer can be reached. Never doubt the govt kwani haukuhesabiwa kwa censors? Remember you filled in info of how many chickens you have? What is that data for? Anyway, can work perfectly even for the jua kali sector if implemented.

ETR for what? If they have an ID why not pin? Why do we make excuses for incompetence?

Does a farmer need a ETR machine to BUY fertilizer? Why do u jump into discussions without going thru the arguments brought forth?

Rankaz was doubting the Presidents optism in the agri sector due to taxation - VAT. Now let me try to chew it for you. Small scale farmers dont depend on fertilizer as you'd want to make us believe here. They use kidogo sana if they do in most cases they rely on manure(cow dung, chicken poop or just compost). Even seeds, most small scale farmers grow back part of their last harvest. If anything, that 16% extra expense is passed to you when they hike the price do your research.

Now those who can be termed as "commercial farmers" i.e they sell close to 75% are eligible to get tax rebates from the gov. Once a farm produces output of a certain amount of income, the farmer can apply to be recognized as a vatable entity and KRA will give the farm a PIN number.

When they sell, they are allowed to Collect VAT ( i guess this is where the ETR is needed) and cover for the VAT paid on seeds n etc. If your farm is registered then its eligible for farmwork deductions, refunds of costs incurred on capex if and when you prevent soil erosion etc. And please understand the context of the argument before jumping with maneno bla bla

@murchr, Who said a farmer needs ETR to buy anything?
The farmer needs ETR to prove their claim for refund. The red part of your response,where you are guessing.Stop biting your tail.

There is an agrovet shop in every part of this country,do we have large scale farmers throughout the republic?
I buy farm inputs just as everybody in my village,in the Rift Valley,heck my in-laws do and their neighbors.
None of us is a large scale farmer and we don't qualify under your system. The millions of us get screwed while the big fish enjoy rebates.
That is one discriminative tax regime to the poor.
For years, my business has never gotten any VAT refund thanks to the unscrupulous entities. There will be unscrupulous farmers if we go that way.
The taxman has to be sure. That is my biggest concern. The simplest solution,exempt farm inputs,which i believe is the case. Afterall, what else can one do with farm inputs other than use them in the farm?

Before i "jump with maneno bla bla", what was the context of the argument? I thought it was VAT on farm inputs.
Who qualifies to be a small scale farmer?

http://www.businessdaily...8/-/lbntyb/-/index.html

Red flags are always being raised on Kenya's rising debt levels but no substantial debate comes out of it . The writer in todays Business Daily by using statistics from CBK has expressed some hard facts that the economy has potential to follow the path of Euro crisis.

@josimar @Museveni, et al, give us a link to the CBK document giving those projections