The High Court on Wednesday extended orders freezing the implementation of the contentious Finance Act, 2023 as confusion lingers on the fate of the taxes unlawfully collected by the government since Saturday after the initial suspension.
Lawyers appearing for the State in the case argued the order bars the government from collecting a total of Sh578 million on a daily basis (Sh211 billion across the year), and that a majority of the taxes are consumption taxes, which cannot be collected afterwards.
