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