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Court resurrects 'dead' firm to allow KRA collect Sh125m tax debt

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Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
 

When Benjamin Franklin, one of the US founding fathers, said that only death and taxes are certain in life, the assumption was that the former coming first can save one from debts owed to Caesar.

But in a rare show of the permanency of taxes, a High Court judge has ordered for the resurrection of a company that has been dead nearly three years, to allow the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) chase a Sh125.8 million debt.