Nairobi, March 21 -- A newly set up committee will come up with a temporary solution to relieve farmers from a requirement by the taxman to produce electronic invoices for their sales.

The development is set to come as a relief to primary farmers, particularly avocado and macadamia farmers, who were set to be hit hard by the new regulation.

Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua, on Tuesday, directed the stakeholders' committee to sit and come up with a framework that will exempt primary farmers from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) electronic tax invoice management (eTims) requirement as contained in Section 23 of the Finance Act 2023.

The committee consists of the Kirinyaga Senator (James Murango), Tigania West MP (John Mutunga) alo...