Ruto opens probe on Uhuru, allies’ firms over tax evasion
Ruto through KRA opens probe on former President Uhuru, among other powerful individuals and allies' firms over tax evasion claims
Ruto through KRA opens probe on former President Uhuru, among other powerful individuals and allies’ firms over tax evasion claims.
President William Ruto’s administration is now probing at least 300 companies associated with powerful individuals in the previous regimes over non-payment of taxes, according to a report by Sunday Nation.
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Prof Njuguna Ndung’u and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) chairperson Anthony Ng’ang’a Mwaura on Saturday, 4, February confirmed that they are currently reviewing the companies which have been enjoying tax exemptions or have evaded paying their dues.
“There is a law governing exemptions. That is the one we are following strictly,” CS Ndung’u said.
According to reports, most of the companies which are likely to be affected are the ones that are owned by the country’s big families, with Mr. Mwaura saying firms in the list belong to the ‘untouchables’ of former administrations.
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According to the KRA boss, some of the companies have not been paying taxes since independence.
“Everyone has to come on board when it comes to paying taxes because even the President is paying his taxes, including myself. No one in Kenya Kwanza is being exempted from taxation and that is why very many companies of untouchable people of former administrations will have to pay tax now. There are people in this country who have not been paying taxes since independence,” said Mr. Mwaura.
Some of the companies being investigated, he said, are those whose owners had enjoyed tax exemption by law and others whose owners were using their closeness with powerful persons in government to intimidate KRA officials.
The KRA boss said they have given the companies which have been evading taxes timelines to clear their arrears.
He noted that a wine and spirit company of a senior member of the former administration owes KRA Sh7.6 billion.
Another, he said, “is dumping oil in the country for export.”
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