KRA bid to block Sh4.5bn allocated to Nairobi County quashed
A Nairobi court has stopped Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) from blocking Sh4.5 billion allocated to Nairobi County in Tax Evasion row.
This is after lawyer Cecil Miller filed an application at the High Court on behalf of the county seeking to quash the order that barred the release of funds.
Miller had told the court that KRA enforced the illegal notices dated September 10, 2019 by recovering Sh2 billion, the county’s Revenue Fund Account without its knowledge and consent leaving it with no funds to pay its employees’ salaries and run other county responsibilities.
The county through Miller told Judge Pauline Nyamweya that KRA has written to seven banks seeking to enforce agency money over alleged tax due.
The county maintains that if the orders are not granted, KRA is likely to c...