Tax Appeals Tribunal directed to deal with Sh300 billion tax disputes within 100 days

The Tax Appeals Tribunal has been given three months within which it must resolve the disputes between tax payers and the Kenya Revenue Authority. Resolving the disputes could unlock billions in tax revenues for the Government, which is at pains to increase tax collections to meet growing budgetary needs.

President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday directed the tribunal to report back within 100 days on the work that it will have done in resolving the numerous cases before it. The President noted that there over 1,000 cases and Sh300 billion in disputed tax had been pending before the tribunal as well as courts for more than two years and that it “represented a significant bottleneck in the tax administration process”.