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Keroche Breweries CEO Tabitha Karanja when she addressed the media regarding the latest standoff between Keroche breweries and the Kenya Revenue Authority. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Keroche Breweries Ltd was founded on love and Sh500,000, it has been told. But its cat and mouse relationship with the taxman has sucked the life out of the 25-year-old company.
The tax battle between Keroche and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has been brewing since 1998, barely a year after the firm was founded in Naivasha as a fortified fruit wines brewery.
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