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V.A.T. Act 2007 - Kenya Revenue Authority

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Rev. <strong>2007</strong> VALUE ADDED TAX CAP 476<br />

unless such details are available at the time of supply on invoices issued at, or<br />

before, that time.<br />

(2) All records required to be kept under this regulation shall be included in the<br />

audit of accounts of the taxable person that may be subject to such audit by a<br />

competent person.<br />

L.N. 121/96.<br />

(3) Where the Commissioner considers that a taxable person is not complying<br />

with requirements of this regulation, or where he considers that other records should<br />

be kept by the taxable person to safeguard the tax revenue, he shall issue a notice to<br />

the taxable person requiring him to keep such records or take such action as the<br />

Commissioner may specify and any person failing to comply with such notice shall<br />

be guilty of an offence.<br />

(4) Where a notice issued under paragraph (3) is not complied with and without<br />

prejudice to any other action that he may take, the Commissioner may, from such<br />

information as is available to him, assess the amount of tax that he considers to be<br />

due from the taxable person during each period that the offence continues.<br />

(5) All records required to be kept under this regulation shall be maintained up-todate<br />

and details of all tax charged shall be entered in the appropriate records without<br />

delay.<br />

(6) All records shall be kept in the Kiswahili or English language and shall be<br />

kept for a period of five years from the date of the last entry made therein.<br />

(7) Where records relating to a business are being kept in any language other than<br />

those prescribed, the Commissioner may require a registered person to produce, at<br />

that person's expense, an authenticated translation of those records.<br />

Samples of taxable<br />

goods.<br />

8. Where taxable goods -<br />

(a) are distributed free as samples by a registered person for furtherance of his<br />

business; and<br />

(b) have a value of less than two hundred shillings for each sample; and<br />

(c) are freely available; and<br />

(d) are not limited in distribution to fewer than thirty persons in any one calendar<br />

month,<br />

they shall not be liable to tax.<br />

VAT returns and<br />

payments by<br />

cheques.<br />

9. (1) The return required by paragraph 7 of the Seventh Schedule to the <strong>Act</strong> shall<br />

be on Form VAT 3;<br />

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