Keroche Breweries can now sigh with relief after it secured temporary orders stopping the taxman from recovering Sh9.1 billion in taxes from its accounts.
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) had already ordered for the freezing the firm’s Equity Bank accounts in their bid to recover Sh9.1 billion.
Tax Appeals Tribunal ruling on March 12 dismissed Keroche’s challenge to the levying of excise duty
Justice David Majanja, on Friday, ordered a temporary reprieve for embattled Kenyan brewer which is embroiled in legal and other battles with East African Breweries Ltd.
Elsewhere Tuborg brand from a Danish brewing company founded in 1873. is headed to produce the drink locally from Naivasha.
Since 1970, Tuborg has been part of the Carlsberg Group. The brewery’s flagship, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time in 1880.