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LAWS OF KENYA SECOND-HAND MOTOR VEHICLES PURCHASE TAX ACT CHAPTER 484 Revised Edition 2012 [1991] Published by the National Council for Law Reporting with the Authority of the Attorney-General www.kenyalaw.org [Rev.

2012] CAP.

484 Second-Hand Motor Vehicles Purchase Tax CHAPTER 484 SECOND-HAND MOTOR VEHICLES PURCHASE TAX ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Section 1.

Short title.

2.

Interpretation.

3.

Imposition of purchase tax.

3A.

Dealers to be licensed.

4.

Purchases by dealers.

5.

Hire-purchase.

6.

Recovery of tax.

7.

Transfer of motor vehicle not to be registered until tax paid.

8.

Regulations.

SCHEDULE RATES OF PURCHASE TAX 3 [Issue 1] [Rev.

2012] CAP.

484 Second-Hand Motor Vehicles Purchase Tax CHAPTER 484 SECOND-HAND MOTOR VEHICLES PURCHASE TAX ACT [Date of assent: 7th August, 1963.] [Date of commencement: 13th August, 1963.] An Act of Parliament to provide for the imposition of a tax on the purchase of certain second-hand motor vehicles and second-hand trailers [L.N.

2/1964, Act No.

9 of 1967, Act No.

23 of 1968, Act No.

10 of 1972, Act No.

11 of 1976, Act No.

13 of 1979, Act No.

14 of 1982, Act No.

8 of 1985, Act No.

10 of 1988, Act No.

8 of 1996, Act No.

7 of 2002.] 1.

Short title This Act may be cited as the Second-hand Motor Vehicles Purchase Tax Act.

2.

Interpretation In this Act motor vehicle means any mechanically propelled vehicle and includes a trailer, that is to say any vehicle designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle, but does not include (a) vehicles running on a specially prepared way such as a railway or tramway or vehicles deriving their power from overhead electric power cables; (b) vehicles constructed as aircraft crash tenders, ambulances, hearses, mobile clinics, refuse disposal or street cleansing vehicles, self-propelled invalid chairs, tower wagons or travelling libraries; (c) tractors, including track-laying tractors, winches, pulleys, shovels, grabs, scrapers, dozers, log or pipe handlers, cranes, booms, drag- lines, hoes or similar appliances; (d) stone crushers, road rollers, compactors, graders, spreaders, scrapers, scarifiers, sweepers, sprayers, gritters, levellers, excavators, rooters, rippers, bull-dozers, trenchers, ditchers, mechanical shovels, concrete mixers, soil stabilisation mixers and pulverizers or dumpers; (e) trailers specially designed for attachment to or for conveyance of the tractors, vehicles and mobile machinery specified in paragraphs (c) and (d); (f) sidecars attached to motorcycles; or (g) any vehicles declared under the Traffic Act (Cap.

403) not to be motor vehicles for the purposes of that Act: Provided that, for the purposes of paragraph (c), tractor does not include a motive unit designed for use with a semi-trailer as an articulated vehicle; Registrar of Motor Vehicles means the person so appointed under section 3 of the Traffic Act; 5 [Issue 1] CAP.

484 [Rev.

2012] Second-Hand Motor Vehicles Purchase Tax second-hand, in relation to a motor vehicle, means that the motor vehicle has already been registered under Part II of the Traffic Act or under the corresponding law of some other country.

3.

Imposition of purchase tax (1) Any person who buys a second-hand motor vehicle shall pay a purchase tax in respect of that purchase.

(2) The purchase tax shall be at the rate specified in the Schedule, according to the type of motor vehicle purchased.

(3) The purchase tax shall be paid by the purchaser, within fourteen days of the date of the purchase, to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or a person appointed by him in writing for that purpose.

[Act No.

9 of 1967, Sch.] 3A.

Dealers to be licensed (1) No person shall carry on the business of buying and selling second-hand motor vehicles unless he holds a licence to do so, issued by the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

(2) A fee of two thousand five-hundred shillings shall be payable for a licence under subsection (1): Provided that no fee shall be payable by a person who holds a dealers general licence issued under section 23(1) of the Traffic Act (Cap.

403).

(3) A licence under subsection (1) shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issue.

(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand shillings.

[Act No.

23 of 1968, s.

2, Act No.

13 of 1979, s.

9, Act No.

14 of 1982, s.

27, Act No.

8 of 1985, s.

22, Act No.

10 of 1988, s.

41.] 4.

Purchases by dealers (1) Where a person holding a licence under section 4 carries on the business of buying and selling second-hand motor vehicles and buys a second-hand motor vehicle in the course of that trade for the purpose only of resale (other than resale by way of hire-purchase), purchase tax shall not be payable in respect of that purchase.

(2) A person holding a licence under section 3A of this Act shall inform the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in writing, in such form (if any) as may be prescribed (a) of every purchase of a second-hand motor vehicle which he buys in the circumstances mentioned in that subsection; and (b) of the resale of a vehicle which he has so bought, with the name and address of the purchaser, within seven days after the purchase or resale, as the case may be, and if he fails to do so the Registrar of Motor Vehicles may cancel his registration.

[Act No.

9 of 1967, Sch., Act No.

23 of 1968, s.

3.] [Issue 1] 6 [Rev.

2012] CAP.

484 Second-Hand Motor Vehicles Purchase Tax 5.

Hire-purchase Where a person carrying on hire-purchase business buys a motor vehicle and then hires it to another person under a hire-purchase agreement, then if that other person buys the vehicle in exercise of the option contained in the hire- purchase agreement, purchase tax shall not be payable by that other person in respect of that purchase.

6.

Recovery of tax Purchase tax payable under this Act shall be a civil debt due to the Government from the person by whom it is payable, and, without prejudice to any other means of recovery, shall be a civil debt recoverable summarily.

7.

Transfer of motor vehicle not to be registered until tax paid Where a second-hand motor vehicle is purchased, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles shall refuse to register the purchaser as the owner thereof under section 9 of the Traffic Act (Cap.

403) until the purchase tax payable in respect of the purchase has been paid, but such refusal shall not exempt any person from compliance with subsection (1) of that section.

8.

Regulations The Minister may make regulations prescribing anything which under this Act may be prescribed, and generally for the better carrying out of the purposes and provisions of this Act.

SCHEDULE [Section 3(2), Act No.

13 of 1979, s.

9, Act No.

14 of 1982, s.

27, Act No.

8 of 1985, s.

22, Act No.

10 of 1988, s.

41, Act No.

8 of 1996, s.

61, Act No.

7 of 2002, s.

53.] RATES OF PURCHASE TAX Old New Rates Rates KSh.

KSh.

A.

A motor vehicle with four wheels or more and with an engine capacity (a) not exceeding 1000 cc.

900 1,035 (b) exceeding 1000 cc but not exceeding 1200 cc.

1,100 1,265 (c) exceeding 1200 cc but not exceeding 1500 cc.

1,250 1,440 (d) exceeding 1500 cc but not exceeding 1700 cc.

1,550 1,785 (e) exceeding 1700 cc but not exceeding 2000 cc.

1,800 2,070 (f) exceeding 2000 cc but not exceeding 2500 cc.

2,800 3,220 (g) exceeding 2500 cc but not exceeding 3000 cc.

3,850 4,430 (h) exceeding 3000 cc.

4,600 5,290 B.

A trailer with less than four wheels.

350 405 C.

A trailer with four wheels or more.

1,100 1,265 7 [Issue 1].

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