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Fresh win for book publishers in fight against factory tax
Parents and guardians shop for textbooks and other school supplies for their children at Savanis Bookshop along Latema Road in Nairobi County on December 29, 2025.
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has suffered a fresh blow after the High Court rejected its push to impose factory taxes on a book publisher, marking a back-to-back defeat for the agency.
The court rejected an appeal by Kebs, seeking to revive a Sh52 million standards levy against book printer Oxford University Press East Africa, saying that book publishers are not manufacturers and cannot be subject to the levy under the Standards Act.
