“The petition seeks interpretation of the Crops Act 2013 and AFFA Act and parties involved should respect court orders. They argued that the law did not allow KRA to collect corporate tax since this defies the Crops Act. The Crops Act came into force in August 1, 2014. No sugar development levies were supposed to be charged on farmers or collected by anybody apart from legally sanctioned-Commodity Development Trust Fund, which was to be established. Updated Thu, June 2nd 2016 at 00:00 GMT +3Two cane farmers have moved to court seeking orders to stop Kenya Revenue Authority from collecting tax from sugar millers.

Source: Standard Digital June 01, 2016 19:41 UTC