Court orders trader to pay Sh9.6 million import tax to KRA

Maur Abdalla Bwanamaka at a Mombasa Court in Mombasa County on Thursday, June 3, 2021. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Businessman and politician Maur Bwanamaka has been fined Sh1 million and ordered to pay the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Sh9.6 million in tax for rice and scrap metals he imported in 2019. 

Mombasa Chief Magistrate Edna Nyaloti fined Bwanamaka for under-declaring the tax for rice and scrap of metal imported from Zanzibar. He was found guilty of evading to pay Sh13 million tax.