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Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG The taxman has been spared from paying a sugar importer more than Sh569 million for damages after changing dates for the importation of duty-free sugar in 2007, pending the hearing of its appeal.Three judges of the Court of Appeal agreed that the compensation amount to Transouth Conveyors was...

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) custom officials have arrested a Kenyan travelling from Burundi with Sh238 million in foreign currency at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). On Thursday, the traveller was intercepted at JKIA with a parcel containing $2 million. He was arrested on suspicion of being part of a money-laundering scheme after failing to declare the cash as required by law. “The money has been held and the matter...

Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero. PHOTO | KANYIRI WAHITO | NMG Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero on Tuesday obtained a court order barring the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) from seizing Sh427 million in his accounts at NCBA Bank #ticker:NCBA over unpaid tax.Mr Kidero rushed to court after the KRA ordered NCBA to wire the millions to the taxman’s accounts following a High Court judgment...

The customs officers also found a gunny bag-sealing machine. The alleged owner of the sugar Consignment-a Daniel Mwangi was arrested and is scheduled to appear in court. "The trucks and the consignment were transferred to Eldoret Custom’s warehouse," KRA said.Smuggling is not only endangering farmer's livelihoods and the sugar industry; it is actually endangering the very lives of the farmers and their families.Smugglers mainly use...

Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officers on Thursday impounded 230 bags of smuggled sugar valued at Sh810,000 from Uganda in Kitale. KRA customs officers said the sugar was packed in bags labelled Lugazi, a manufacturer based in the neighbouring country. The officers said the sugar "was being transferred by a group...

  Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero at Milimani Anti-Corruption court on April 30, 2019. Former Nairobi governor Evans Kidero will now pay Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) over Sh400 million tax after the commercial court found that he had no proof that money in his accounts was campaign donations. Justice David Majanja ordered Dr Kidero to pay KRA a total Sh427 million after finding that he...

Former Nairobi governor Evans Kidero will have to part with Sh427 million unpaid tax that he used during his gubernatorial campaigns in 2015. This is after the Milimani commercial court judge David Majanja set aside a decision of the Tax Appeals Tribunal which found that the evidence provided by Kidero to prove source of the funds was sufficient. Kidero claimed he had received the monies...

Former Nairobi Governor Dr Evans Kidero at the anticorruption court in Milimani. . The High Court has ordered former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero to pay Sh423 million to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)  in taxes after he failed to prove that funds donated to him between 2011 and 2015 went to his election campaign contributions. An audit carried out by the Commissioner for Domestic Taxes established...

Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). Picture taken on Thursday, October 15, 2020. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG The Kenya Revenue Authority has singled out data on persons applying for electricity as the major source of information that has led to increased recruitment of landlords into the tax net in recent years.The taxman says access to the metering...

Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). Picture taken on Thursday, October 15, 2020. PHOTO | DENNIS ONSONGO | NMG The taxman has stepped up the onslaught on tax-evading landlords through the latest mapping technology, in addition to accessing bank records on rental income and utility transactions with utilities such as Kenya Power.The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is implementing a...