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  • 2021-09-07 (xsd:date)
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  • No, letter from Kenya’s tax agency to deputy president fake (en)
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  • A copy of what appears to be a letter from Kenya’s tax agency to the country’s deputy president William Ruto has been posted on Facebook . In it, the tax agency asks Ruto to verify what taxes he has paid for income from the sale of eggs. The letter is dated 3 September 2021 and is signed by Dr Edward Kinyua Karanja who is the Commissioner of Investigation & Enforcement Department. It was posted by a Facebook user with over 600,000 followers, and also posted by other users here , here , here and here . The letter was shared just days after Ruto said he made KSh1.5 million a day from the sale of eggs, and mentioned the interview directly: Your poultry farming enterprise, for instance, as reported by yourself in media interviews generates a daily income of KSh1,500,000 sums of which you remit no taxes to the KRA. Edward Karanja is a commissioner in the top leadership of the Kenya revenue authority (KRA), and the letter shows the logo of the tax agency. But is it legit? ‘The letter is fake’ – tax authority On 3 September, KRA posted a copy of the widely circulated letter on their official Facebook page, stamped FAKE. A user also reached out to the agency on Twitter to verify the authenticity of the letter, and the agency replied : Kindly note the letter is fake. (en)
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