NAIROBI, Kenya May 13-The Kenya Revenue Authority has refuted claims that the truck snarlup at the Namanga is due to an increment of taxes on liquid petroleum gas (LPG), as it seeks to hasten the resolution of the impasse.
The taxman in a statement said that the LPG tax was reintroduced by the Kenyan government in July 2021, after being zero-rated in 2016.
Some importers were, however, undervaluing their LPG products to evade tax and have since been issued with notices to comply after which their trucks will be cleared from the border post, KRA said.
“It is very unfortunate for traders to block the Namanga border which is our third busiest border considering we are just implementing the tax as stipulated in the law,” said Jospeh Kaguru, Deputy Commissioner, Customs Revenue &Regional Commissioner, KRA.
Kaguru noted that when the impasse started 60 trucks had not complied making KRA lose almost Sh10.5million , which should be more by now.
“KRA has had an engagement with importers representatives and owners of the trucks and they have been instructed to quickly comply and clear their LPG consignments from the Namanga OSBP,” he said.
