Motorcycles to cost more on 10 percent excise tax

Imported motorcycles costing Sh130,000 and above are set to become more expensive after the National Treasury proposed to raise excise duty on a two-tier system featuring the current flat rate of Sh12,952 or a new proposed rate of 10 percent of the unit’s value, whichever is higher.

The proposal to introduce the second option of 10 percent excise duty is contained in the Finance Bill, 2024 that is expected to be tabled in Parliament this month for debate and passage before the end of June.

“The first schedule to the Excise Duty act is amended by deleting…the corresponding rate of excise duty and substituting thereof the following new description and corresponding rate of excise duty … tariff 10 percent of the value or Sh12,952.83 per unit whichever is higher,” the Bill reads in part.