Tullow faces Sh21bn tax demand in Kenya exit deal

A picture taken on March 26, 2017, shows an oil drilling block managed by British company Tullow Oil at Lokichar basin in Turkana County.

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Tullow Oil is fighting off a Sh21.9 billion ($170 million) tax demand from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), in what mirrors a tax tussle the British company faced in a project in neighbouring Uganda.

The company claimed that the tax demand is unmerited and unfair, adding that it will jointly challenge it with Gulf Energy, which bought its project in Turkana, in a Sh15.5 billion ($120 million) deal closed in September 2025.

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