File your response within seven days, High Court orders KRA and KIFWA

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Kenya Revenue Authority has been directed to file their response within seven days in case in which Kenya International Freight and Warehousing Association is seeking orders to compel them to renew licenses of its 1,300 members.
The group, alongside directors of 14 other clearing and forwarding companies, want the court to suspend license renewal guidelines citing lack of public participation.
The petitioners are pushing to have KRA compelled to issue them with the 2017 licenses as they had applied and also want the biodata form introduced by the taxman suspended.
The group also want the authority to be forced to convene stakeholder’s consultative forums for discussion on 2018 licensing rules.
KRA and the Commissioner for customs and border control who are the respondents in the case said that the vetting process of the insurance is ongoing adding that the applicants should be patient.
High court judge Roselyn Aburili blamed the respondents in the case for delaying the issuance of the licenses that have since expired.
“There’s no big dispute here, there’s is just some delay, we can’t do without importation something has to be done, and we don’t have food in our shelves “said justice Aburili.
In an affidavit in court by the association’s chairman and CEO of Keynote Logistics, William Ojonyo argues that the taxman has not renewed the customs agents’ licenses saying they are processing applications against the new procedures.
The court was told that the applicants are operating without licenses which is illegal. Further the court was told that despite having complied with its renewal obligations and duly applied for the year 2017 License the respondents have refused to issue License and as a result they have been unable to participate in various lucrative tenders.
They argue that they submitted their application for renewal on the 13th of October to the satisfaction of the laid out conditions adding that since then the respondents have on several occasions extended the validity of the 2016 license.
“The said extension are not envisaged under the East African Customs Community Management Act, “they argue.
The matter will be, mentioned on 22nd of this month.
Kenya Revenue Authority has been directed to file their response within seven days in case in which Kenya International Freight and Warehousing Association is seeking orders to compel them to renew licenses of its 1,300 members.
The group, alongside directors of 14 other clearing and forwarding companies, want the court to suspend license renewal guidelines citing lack of public participation.
The petitioners are pushing to have KRA compelled to issue them with the 2017 licenses as they had applied and also want the biodata form introduced by the taxman suspended.
The group also want the authority to be forced to convene stakeholder’s consultative forums for discussion on 2018 licensing rules.
KRA and the Commissioner for customs and border control who are the respondents in the case said that the vetting process of the insurance is ongoing adding that the applicants should be patient.
High court judge Roselyn Aburili blamed the respondents in the case for delaying the issuance of the licenses that have since expired.
“There’s no big dispute here, there’s is just some delay, we can’t do without importation something has to be done, and we don’t have food in our shelves “said justice Aburili.
In an affidavit in court by the association’s chairman and CEO of Keynote Logistics, William Ojonyo argues that the taxman has not renewed the customs agents’ licenses saying they are processing applications against the new procedures.
The court was told that the applicants are operating without licenses which is illegal. Further the court was told that despite having complied with its renewal obligations and duly applied for the year 2017 License the respondents have refused to issue License and as a result they have been unable to participate in various lucrative tenders.
They argue that they submitted their application for renewal on the 13th of October to the satisfaction of the laid out conditions adding that since then the respondents have on several occasions extended the validity of the 2016 license.
“The said extension are not envisaged under the East African Customs Community Management Act, “they argue.
The matter will be, mentioned on 22nd of this month.
Kenya Revenue Authority has been directed to file their response within seven days in case in which Kenya International Freight and Warehousing Association is seeking orders to compel them to renew licenses of its 1,300 members.
The group, alongside directors of 14 other clearing and forwarding companies, want the court to suspend license renewal guidelines citing lack of public participation.
The petitioners are pushing to have KRA compelled to issue them with the 2017 licenses as they had applied and also want the biodata form introduced by the taxman suspended.
The group also want the authority to be forced to convene stakeholder’s consultative forums for discussion on 2018 licensing rules.
KRA and the Commissioner for customs and border control who are the respondents in the case said that the vetting process of the insurance is ongoing adding that the applicants should be patient.
High court judge Roselyn Aburili blamed the respondents in the case for delaying the issuance of the licenses that have since expired.
“There’s no big dispute here, there’s is just some delay, we can’t do without importation something has to be done, and we don’t have food in our shelves “said justice Aburili.
In an affidavit in court by the association’s chairman and CEO of Keynote Logistics, William Ojonyo argues that the taxman has not renewed the customs agents’ licenses saying they are processing applications against the new procedures.
The court was told that the applicants are operating without licenses which is illegal. Further the court was told that despite having complied with its renewal obligations and duly applied for the year 2017 License the respondents have refused to issue License and as a result they have been unable to participate in various lucrative tenders.
They argue that they submitted their application for renewal on the 13th of October to the satisfaction of the laid out conditions adding that since then the respondents have on several occasions extended the validity of the 2016 license.
“The said extension are not envisaged under the East African Customs Community Management Act, “they argue.
The matter will be, mentioned on 22nd of this month.