The businesswoman who once fled a police dragnet by hiding in a hotel linked to the sitting president, who paid fines for Sh2.2 billion in unpaid taxes and then watched the case disappear, is now asking a court to make the entire episode disappear from the internet too. This is reputation laundering dressed as legal rights and it must be exposed.
These individuals had taxes withheld from their earnings in 2024, proof positive they earned money, yet brazenly declared nil income when filing their returns.
Audit uncovered that Del Monte was using a cost-plus pricing model that grossly undervalued its Kenyan operations while funneling inflated profits to related companies abroad, particularly its Swiss affiliate DMI GmbH.
In June 2025, Duale presided over the destruction of more than 5.5 tonnes of illegal tobacco products seized at Eldoret Airport, describing such smuggling operations as “instruments of harm” that target young people.
The dispute centers around a June 2020 undertaking allegedly made by the Treasury, which Devki claims exempted it from paying the VAT on imported equipment.
UK Global Tea and Commodities is at the center of a scandal over potential tax evasion in Kenya. Allegations have surfaced that the multinational tea trading firm manipulates sales and uses proxy companies to avoid paying billions in taxes. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has accused Global Tea of financial misconduct, leading to a legal […]
The seized sugar at a private container freight station, Mitchel Cotts, was imported from Port Louis, Mauritius by Rehema Badi, a marketing strategist at Mitchell Cotts which is under Elavon Logistics Limited. Word has it that Rehema is a notorious businesswoman used by local and international sugar cartels to dump contaminated sugar in the country. […]
They carry themselves as manufacturers and distributors of baked goods throughout Kenya and lately Tanzania and Uganda. But behind the scenes are underground operations involving tax evasion running into billions of shillings in East Africa. Mini Bakers owners have invested in bakery production of Supa loaf and Akiyda. They are also in fertiliser production and […]
A motor vehicle dealer has lost a petition seeking to quash a Sh20 million tax demand by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). Singapore Motors, which deals with imported cars from Japan suffered a blow after the High Court dismissed the petition. The court found that the company failed to file tax returns as required by […]
Tax experts have poked holes on the proposal by Kenya Revenue Autority (KRA) that will require firms and individuals to deposit half of tax demands before escalating the dispute from the appeals tribunal to the High Court. They raised constitutional questions arguing that passing the proposed changes to the Tax Appeals Tribunal Act will deny […]
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