Keroche Breweries Limited CEO Tabitha Karanja on Thursday pleaded not guilty to fresh tax evasion charges.
This is after the prosecution requested to amend the charge sheet in the Sh14.5 billion tax evasion case against Karanja and her company.
Karanja, who is the senator of Nakuru County, denied 10 counts of tax evasion before Milimani senior principal magistrate Esther Kimilu.
During her court appearance, Keroche’s attorneys said they want to have the matter resolved through an out-of-court agreement.
But KRA officer Irene Muthee told the court that there had been no agreement to settle the matter outside of court as Keroche would be required to notify the commissioner in writing under the Tax Procedure Act.
Consequently, the court gave Keroche 45 days to begin the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process with KRA, failure to which the case will go to full trial.
Karanja denied that on diverse dates between February 20th, 2015, and January 20th, 2016, within the Republic of Kenya, being a director of Keroche Breweries Limited and a liability company, knowingly made incorrect statements in excise duty for the period January 2015 to December 2015.
She is accused of declaring production volumes of 820,602 liters and misapplication of excise duty rates on Vienna Ice by using Sh27.06 instead of Sh175 thereby reducing the excise liability by Sh1,855,403,900 payable to the KRA as required by the Excise Duty Act.
Karanja is further accused of making incorrect statements for January 2017 to December 2017 which affected their payable excise duty by Sh3.6 billion.
The prosecution also alleges that between February 20th, 2019, and January 20th, 2019, she unlawfully omitted from the brewer’s VAT returns for January to December amounting to Sh196 million.
The case will be heard on July 26th.
OMGooooodness this MFs are…
OMGooooodness this MFs are ruthless smh! What will they do with all this money???? you can only live in one house at a time, wear one outfit at a time or drive one car at a time!!!! moment of silence y’all for the great people of kenya:(
My advice to this senator is…
My advice to this senator is to talk to Ruto and Gachagua nicely and all cases will be dropped
Hajji will drop her case as…
Hajji will drop her case as usual.
Pay the damn taxes mama!!!…
Pay the damn taxes mama!!! And all those sacred cows who haven’t been paying a penny in taxes just looting must pay their share of taxes and the loot returned to the taxpayers!!!
It is a big shame that the…
It is a big shame that the heavily taxed hungry billionaire Kenyans are being USED LIKE TISSUE PAPER by miitu Uhuru and Raila in their battles to continue evading taxation.I wonder whether the taxman has sent taxation demand to all companies associated with late MUKUNDU FUCKER,muitu Kirubi.
When you vote in a thief you…
When you vote in a thief you enable them to steal even more.She is now a mheshimiwa do not expect a leopard to change its spots.This government of thieves will take Kenya backwards
When this case was brought…
When this case was brought up during the last administration, the bitch cried and termed it as political persecution. That is why she ran to where all the thieves are, UDA. Now UDA is in power and the case is back in court but I don’t hear her cries that the case is political! What a fucking thieving bitch?
We reap whatever we sow…
We reap whatever we sow. Mama you have money that you have stolen, so that the poor man cannot afford to place a decent meal on the table. Mark my word, God is not a man to be fooled. Cursed is your seed to the four and firth generation. Repeat before it is too late.
Shs 14 billion in tax…
Shs 14 billion in tax evasion?? I could use the money to buy a couple of underwear since I am now in Form Two and have never owned one. Riggy G style folks.
BTW: thus lady joined Udaku to avoid paying the huge tax bill. What happened? Did she fall out with thieving Ruto who orders who pays what through the DPP?
Kuna majaabu hapa Kenya!
Lock her up until she pays…
Lock her up until she pays everything!! These cons are just terrible.