The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is demanding Sh225 million in tax arrears from NASA financier Jimmy Wanjigi for the period between January 2008 and December 2012.
Daily Nation reports that KRA is in hot pursuit of the Nairobi billionaire over tax evasion."Documents in our possession indicate that in May, the KRA wrote to Mr Wanjigi’s company Enterprise Oil demanding Sh225 million in tax arrears for the period between January 2008 and December 2012. The businessman appealed against the claim in a memorandum dated June 21, 2017," reports the Nation.The paper recently published an exposé on how the businessman has, for the past 10 years, manipulated politicians, first in the Jubilee administration and now in Nasa to get mega-projects worth billions of shillings.According to the Nation, KRA says Wanjigi’s company 'offered facilitation of awarding of contract services as well as logistical support' to Chinese companies such as Shengli Engineering and Consulting and China National Aero-Technology International Engineering Company (Catic). The authority adds that since those services were consumed in Kenya, 'VAT (value-added tax) is, therefore, due and payable on them'.Wanjigi who was adversely mentioned in the Anglo Leasing scandals has become the subject of discussion on the campaign trail after it emerged that he is one of the key financiers of the National Super Alliance.Already, there are jitters within Nasa over a separate manifesto that contains projects which Dr David Ndii, one of the authors of the launched Nasa pledges, dismissed as the work of tenderpreneurs and people regarded as stakeholders.“You know we have become a stakeholder society. So people call themselves stakeholders. Even tenderpreneurs are in there. In fact, they are there in a big way,” Dr Ndii is quoted by the Nation as saying.