KRA today has amended the CRSP 1500CC PREMIO duty effective immediately is 295678 up from 264500 1800cc premio 358789 up from 283496kes 2008 premio or 2007 bad month 475900 from 375600 IF U ARE BUYING A CAR CONCLUDE THE DEAL FAST Before the market shakes

I think its time stakeholders in the used car import market in Kenya came together and challenged the use of the CRSP list as a benchmark for calculating taxes for used car imports, the list is inconclusive, arbitrary, unpredictable and unreliable.

the revenue should revert to the use of invoice value as the benchmark for calculating taxes for used car imports albeit with better fraud controls as this will cure the arbitrary, inconclusive, unpredictable and unreliable nature of the CRSP list resulting in chaps paying the exact amount of taxes the should and not a penny more otherwise with the CRSP we will always feel swindled rather than that feeling of 'kulipa ushuru ni kujitegemea', if there should be a list then it should reflect the CRSP of the car when it was first registered not the CRSP seven years later that is just daylight robbery by the revenue.

we need to 'lobby up' and try to change this mode of operation because as it stands I can't see any fairness in using the price of a 2014 car to calculate taxes for a 7 year old car, fairness is using the price of a new car in 2007 to calculate its price today, you can't build a house from the roof downwards

wazua lawyers this is a career maker supreme court stuff

Makes a lot of sense. Are the CRSP Kenyan or they are foreign!! Hope you get what I mean.

I disagree with you with the CRSP method the playing ground is fair otherwise we will have a chaotic situation and unnecessary delays in vehicle clearance.Besides we will no longer
be able to authoritatively cost a vehicle for fear of value uplift.

@mnjoro, level playing field? i don't think so, that CRSP list is devoid of all the car models available in the car market and when you import a car that is not on that list they tell you to use a figure for a different car with the same engine capacity as your non listed import within the same make not caring about the correct pricing hence you pay more taxes than you would have, this has happened to me severally, there is no level field on that.
KRA should contract a reputable international valuation company to provide pre shipment valuation services akin to JEVIC in regards to KEBS this will deter fraud in invoice value declarations so that the invoice value is the customs value of the car for taxation purposes.
All the countries i have been to use invoice value for calculation of taxes before a car is allowed in, what we have in kenya is just peculiar to kenya, we need to change this because the CRSP system is just a bad poorly thought out policy

+1 @mnjoro; the CRSP was a very well thought out method of determining taxation. Otherwise we would have a very chaotic system on top of the problems that we currently face.

As for the Premio taxation, what I know is that the new CRSP matches the KE showrooms valuation. The old prices have been around for some time and those that have used them so far were lucky.

This is similar to what happened to the Corolla, the Axio is a direct replacement of the NZE with a CRSP of about 3.4M, that's a difference of around 1M.

Just asking thought they change CRSP for all car models not just a particular brand.

For those asking about using invoice to calculate vehicle taxation KRA uses both invoice and the crsp but picks whichever is higher. Try use a bogus agent and file entry using the actual invoice you paid for if invoice amount gives them higher amount than crsp they go for the invoice. CRSP brought about uniformity and enforced a minimum tax payable for any particular car. My only beef with KRA is changing the crsp midway without notice

I have been in such a situation on three occasions with the latest one being when I imported a car whose crsp was about 3.2m and so quoted to the buyer a price we agreed on but when the ship came shock on me the crsp had shot up to 4.75m and what made it worse this was the crsp for a better spec premium version of the make and model I was importing while mine was a grade lower spec wise, this is why that list should go, it arbitrary, unreliable, inconclusive and unpredictable, we can't have that in the market place

Any other models that have changed?