肯尼亚税务机关对法庭的裁决提出质疑，该裁决要求对体育博彩收入征收20％的税，不适用于原始博彩股份。

上周，内罗毕税务上诉法庭宣布，自2018年7月起对体育博彩奖金征收20％的税，仅适用于博彩玩家的净奖金，不适用于肯尼亚许可体育博彩返还给获奖博彩者的总金额，其中包括投注者的原始投注金。

除了裁定博彩奖金的定义外，法庭还对KRA的能力施加了限制，迫使KRA迫使博彩运营商从源头扣减税款，而不是将税款的转嫁责任转移给单个投注者。

周一，肯尼亚税务局（KRA）发表声明，称该税务员已提交文件，表明其打算对法庭的裁决提出异议。该通知于11月8日提交，该裁决公布后一天。

Local media quoted Paul Matuku, the KRA’s top legal eagle, saying the KRA was “aggrieved by the Tribunal’s finding that it had no legal backing in demanding Withholding Tax from the betting firms and the manner in which it had enforced collection of the tax.”

Waweru claimed that the Tribunal’s ruling “departed from the decision by Justice Hatari Waweru’s in a Meru High Court case in which the learned judge had found that there was no ambiguity in the interpretation of the term ‘winnings’ as defined by the Income Tax Act.”

The dispute over the definition of winnings led the KRA to demand hundreds of millions of dollars in alleged tax arrears from operators licensed by the Betting Control and Licensing Board (BCLB). When these demands weren’t met, the BCLB suspended the licenses of 27 betting operators while the KRA cut off their payment processing channels.

As a result, several operators, including market-leaders SportPesa and Betin, were forced to shut their Kenyan operations and lay off hundreds of staff. The BCLB suggested that suspended licensees would need to “apply afresh” for new licenses, assuming they were found to be in tax compliance.

上周，SportPesa首席执行官罗纳德·卡拉里（Ronald Karauri）发表声明说，该公司将“现在重新考虑其在肯尼亚运营的未来”，并呼吁KRA遵守法庭的裁决，并“采取合理的方法进行赌博监管和征税， KRA的上诉通知书表明，在可预见的未来，“合理”仍将是一个遥不可及的目标。