Small distillers spared costly factory upgrades in tax cheats war

An alcohol distillery plant in Kisumu.

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Small-scale alcohol distillers have been spared costly factory fittings such as cameras and flow meters which are required by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to help deter tax cheats.

In changes through the newly signed Finance Act 2025, the Treasury said that “micro distillers” are now exempt from fitting surveillance equipment for tax monitoring purposes—handing a relief to entrepreneurs striving to have a piece of the alcohol beverage pie.

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