Kenyans will have to dig deeper into their pockets following the revision of excise duty by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) on selected items. In a statement, KRA informed manufacturers and importers that the rates of excise duty on excisable goods that have a specific rate of duty had been adjusted.
In this case, KRA adjusted the excise duty using the average inflation rate of 4.94 percent for the financial year 2019/2020 as required under section 10 of the Excise duty Act, 2015.
The adjusted rates took effect from 1st October 2020.
Some of the products affected include;
- Fruit juices (including grape must), and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Bottled or similarly packaged waters and other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices
- Beer, cider, perry, mead, opaque beer and mixtures of fermented beverages with non-alcoholic beverages and spirituous beverages of an alcoholic strength not exceeding 6%
- Powdered beer
- Wines including fortified wines, and other alcoholic beverages obtained by fermentation of fruits
- Spirits of undenatured ethyl alcohol; spirits liqueurs and other spirituous beverages of alcoholic strength exceeding 6%
- Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos, containing tobacco or tobacco substitutes
- Electronic cigarettes
- Cartridge for use in electronic cigarettes
- Cigarette with filters (hinge lid and soft cap)
- Cigarettes without filters (plain cigarettes)
- Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; “homogenous” and “reconstituted tobacco”; tobacco extracts and essences
- Motorcycles of tariff no. 87.11 other than motorcycle ambulances and locally assembled motorcycles
- Imported sugar confectionery of tariff heading 17.04
- Imported white chocolate, chocolate in blocs, slabs or bars of tariff Nos. 1806.31.00, 1806.32.00,1806.90.00
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