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KRA suffers major blow in court battle with taxpayers
Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner general Michael Waweru (left) and his counterpart from Large Tax Payers Office John Njiraini. The authority has been blocked from a major avenue it has been using to recover money from defaulters. File
The Kenya Revenue Authority has been ordered to refund money it drew from a bank for failing to remit taxes from a customer — handing a major victory to taxpayers, who have been suffering the wrath of overzealous tax collectors after revenue targets.
The Constitutional Court declared illegal the tax man’s decision to raid I&M Bank’s account at the Central Bank for money it had not received from a taxpayer after it realised it could not recover the levies from the customer.
