This archive report was first published on 16 August 2019.
A British national, Aaron John Kitchener, has been charged with tax evasion in Mombasa, Kenya, for failing to pay over Ksh39 million in taxes.
According to the charges, Kitchener, a director at a security firm, failed to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) amounting to Sh5,578,181 between January 1, 2018, and July 20, 2019.
He also denied failing to declare Sh24,636,778 in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax from salaries paid to management staff by the company between January 1, 2015, and December 2018.
Additionally, Kitchener was accused of making an incorrect statement to the commissioner of domestic taxes in 2018, amounting to Sh2.4 million for salaries.
On August 16, 2019, Mombasa Chief Magistrate Edna Nyaloti directed Kitchener to be released on a bond of Ksh3 million and a similar Kenyan surety.
The magistrate also ordered Kitchener to deposit his passport with the police and to return to the court for a pre-trial conference on August 23, 2019.
Other British directors, including Gillespie Steven John, Gary Michael Lincoln, and Phillipe Storm, as well as Kenyan directors George Zarya, Salil Ashad Patel, Ludovic Gunnar Harold Storm, Sunir Maheshkumar Doshi, Anish Maheshkumar Doshi, and Fredrich Gotz Constatine Zu Furstenburg, were summoned to appear in court on August 23, 2019, to plead to tax evasion charges.
