KRA alleges Sh280m tax evasion by Keroche in factory closure

A plant operator at Naivasha-based Keroche Breweries. [Antony Gitonga, Standard]

Keroche Breweries has collected taxes amounting to Sh279.9 million but failed to remit the same to the State, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has revealed.

In a rejoinder to complaints by Keroche Breweries Chief Executive Tabitha Karanja over closure of her Naivasha-based plant, KRA said it took the action after the company failed to send it the principal tax, even after the brewer itself admitted to having collected the money from January 2022 to date in its monthly self-assessment report.