War on contrabands deny KRA revenues from imports

Some of contraband and anti-counterfeit goods that are to be crushed and destroyed by multi agency officials in Athi river. [Willis Awandu/Standard]

?The war on fake products has cost the Government some income, after taxes on imported goods underperformed by end of May.

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected Sh97 billion in import duty in the first 11 months of 2018/19 fiscal year, falling far below its June target of Sh135 billion.