KeBS MD, 32 top KRA officials arrested over contraband goods

By Wangui Ngechu,

Embattled Charles Ongwae, the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS) Managing Director has been re-arrested. Ogwae was arrested alongside 32 top Kenya Reve...

KRA

MPs to debate Uhuru’s proposed tax hike on money transfer services

By Reuters,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has proposed hiking taxes on mobile money transfer services, amid a tussle in government over how to boost revenues without h...

Airtel , budget , fuel tax , Mobile Money transfers , mpesa , Rotich , Safaricom , Uhuru kenyatta

Court now declares Robin Hood taxes illegal, faults CS Rotich

By Dzuya Walter,

The High Court has faulted Treasury CS Henry Rotich saying he did not follow the Constitution when he presented the Finance Bill 2018. This means t...

robin hood tax , Rotich

NASA leaders now support 8pc fuel tax proposal but for one year

By Citizen Reporter,

National Super Alliance (NASA) lawmakers have backtracked on an earlier decision to shoot down President Uhuru Kenyatta's proposal to have the 16pc fu...

fuel tax

ERC sued for contempt of court over 16% VAT on fuel

By Allan Obiero,

The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has been sued for contempt of court over the implementation of the 16% Value Added Tax (V.A.T) on petroleum pro...

16% VAT on Fuel , Energy Regulatory Commission ERC , Kisumu High Court , Lawyer Ken Amondi

KRA dismisses Omtata’s 16% VAT case terming it as baseless

By Dzuya Walter,

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) on Monday dismissed a case filed by activist Okiya Omtatah challenging the imposition of the 16% Value Added Tax (VA...

Activist Okiya Omtata , fuel tax , Kenya Revenue Authority , KRA , VAT on fuel

Three top public servants on EACC radar over Ksh.1B

By Sam Ogina,

Citizen Digital has now obtained exclusive an anti-corruption agency operation to recover Ksh.1billion from just three Kenyan men. According to the...

corruption , EACC , Joseph Gikonyo , stephen osiro , Thomas Gitau Njog

High Court suspends 16% VAT on fuel pending case hearing

By Citizen Reporter,

The High Court in Bungoma has temporarily stopped implementation of the 16% Value Added Tax (V.A.T) on petroleum products pending determination of cas...

Bungoma High Court , Justice Stephen Riechi , Treasury CS Henry Rotich , V.A.T on Fuel

Omtata in court to stop 16% V.A.T on fuel

By Dzuya Walter,

Activist Okiya Omtata has filed a petition seeking to stop the 16 percent Value Added Tax (V.A.T) on petroleum products. In the petition filed at M...

Activist Okiya Omtata , Energy Regulatory Commission , Kenya Revenue Authority , Treasury CS Henry Rotich , V.A.T on Fuel

KRA announces 16pc petrol tax as COTU threatens strike

By Citizen Team,

Motorists will now have to dig deeper into their pockets after the taxman announced 16 percent petrol tax on all products with effect from September ...

COTU , fuel prices , fuel tax

Deputy CJ Philomena Mwilu released on Ksh.5M bond

By Ian Omondi,

Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu was on Tuesday evening released on a Ksh.5 million bond after being charged over abuse of office claims. Justi...

Deputy Chief Justice , Philomena Mwilu

Kenya withdraws from hosting 2018 CECAFA, cites financial constraints

By Jacob Icia,

Kenya has pulled out of hosting the 2018 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup that was set for December, Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa...

CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup , FKF , kenya , Nick Mwendwa

On fire Kaberia mum, as Muthee, Muteti trade blames over World U-18 scam

By Carol Kones,

In what is turning out to be startling revelations, the IAAF World Under-18 Local Organising Committee CEO Mwangi Muthee has claimed that Sports Kenya...

ICT Ministry to kicks off digital registration in September

By Kepha Muiruri,

Kenyans could as early as December acquire new identity cards (IDs) as the government moves fast-tracks the implementation of the mass bio-metric nati...

bio data , bio metrics , digital registration , ID , identification , Joe Mucheru , KRA , NTSA , service delivery

KRA, KPA officials charged with concealing imported goods

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Four officials of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) have been charged with concealing imported goods in an attempt to ...

DCI , Embakasi Inland Depot , KRA , Mombasa Port. , tax evasion

Sugar scandal: Parliament wants CSs Rotich, Mohamed punished

By Benjamin Muriuki,

A parliamentary committee has recommended that action be taken against Cabinet Secretaries Henry Rotich (Treasury) and Adan Mohamed (Industrialization...

Adan Mohamed , Henry Rotich , Sugar probe , sugar scandal

Narcotic drugs at JKIA were disguised as sweets – Taxman

By Citizen Reporter,

Officers from the Kenya Revenue Authority have intercepted narcotic drugs at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The officers from KRA ...

drug smuggling , drugs at JKIA , jkia

Telkom plans to double market share, data in focus

By Reuters,

Telkom Kenya, the country’s third biggest operator, wants to double its market share to 15 percent and is selling its transmission towers in a lease...

Aldo Mareuse , Communications Authority , Competition , data , Dominance , Loon , Safaricom , T-Kash , telecommunication , Telkom , Vodacom

Oil marketers approve stricter kerosene regulations

By Kepha Muiruri,

Key stakeholders from the petroleum and energy sector are calling for tougher kerosene regulations in the form of taxation with a view to contract the...

adulteration , Andrew Kamau , Anne-Solange Renouard , Fuel , kerosene , KRA , petroleum institute of east africa , PIEA , tax

Gor Mahia’s account frozen over Ksh129 million tax arrears

By Isaac Swila,

Gor Mahia are starring at yet another round of financial quagmire after the tax-man Kenya Revenue Authority froze the club bank's account at the Devel...

account frozen , GOR MAHIA , INCOME TAX