Courts reject bid to tax banks on asset auction

Justice George Odunga. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Bankers are set to keep all the property auction millions after the appellate court rejected efforts to reintroduce regulations that would have forced the lenders to pay capital gain tax.

The Court of Appeal, in a ruling delivered last week, upheld a decision of the High Court that had quashed regulations requiring banks to pay capital gains tax (CGT) on land sold to recover bad loans.

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