Tag: KRA
KRA Announces Green Channel Framework to Hasten Refunds
Maximum revenue collection appears to be the top goal of the current government, which has gone to greater lengths in reminding Kenyans that they...
KRA to Integrate Digital Tax System for Telcos
It has been a couple of months ever since the Ruto Government took over Kenya’s administration. There have been many promises, many of which...
Google, Other Global Tech Firms Start Charging 16 Percent VAT in Kenya
As required by the Value Added Tax (Digital Marketplace Supply) (Amendment) Regulations of 2022, global technology companies and firms have begun charging a 16%...
KRA Could Be a Stumbling Block to Safaricom, M-PESA Split
The possibility of splitting Safaricom, Kenya’s leading telco, into separate entities has been a topic of debate among lawmakers and other interested parties.
Safaricom's internal...
KRA Extends Deadline for Tax Invoice Management System Compliance
Last month (July 2022), KRA alerted the public and all VAT-registered taxpayers of the transitioning of VAT-registered taxpayers from the old electronic tax registers...
Flamboyant On Social Media? KRA Will Track You To See If You Are a Tax Cheat
The music is about to be put on pause for Kenyans on social media who portray flashy and lavish lifestyles, as the Kenya Revenue...
Nairobi County Rolls Out Nairobi Revenue System, A Digital Revenue Collection Platform for Traders
The shift to digitization in the country has not always been smooth.
We can refer to the case of making payments in Nairobi County: parking...
Google Kenya vs KRA, and Why the Search Giant Wants KES 58.7 Million in Tax Refunds
Many internet corporations conduct their business in Kenya. Facebook, Twitter, Google, name them, all have a base in Kenya because the country is a...
KRA Updates iTax Platform to Reflect New Digital Service Tax
Back in June 2020, President Kenyatta signed the Finance Bill 2020, which introduced amendments for statutes, among many other revisions, for The Income Tax...
KRA’s New Unit Will Track Revenues in Digital Economy
The Kenya Revenue Authority has set up a special unit that will track revenues made in the digital economy as reported by Business Daily.
"To ensure...
KRA Gets Nod from The Courts to Snoop into M-PESA and Bank Records for Tax Compliance
Back in October 2018, we learnt that KRA had earmarked mobile money transaction data to boost tax revenues. The plan was to target mobile...
KRA Reminds Online Merchants to Charge and Remit VAT
The Kenya Revenue Authority cautioned traders on online digital places on their practices revolving charging and remitting value-added tax (VAT).
"It has come to our...
KRA Charges X-TIGI Business Executive With Tax Evasion Amounting to Near KES 0.2 Billion
Business has been a challenging endevour for a lot of people. While the Kenyan economy is booming, things on the ground are different: tens...
Kenyan Developers Get Vocal on KRA’s Plan to Tax Foreign and Local Revenue Generating Apps
KRA recently announced plans to start demanding tax from apps on downloads. In the announcement, KRA will reportedly work with the Communication Authority of...
KRA Seeks to Tax Foreign and Local Revenue Generating Apps
Governments have been catching up trying to cash in on the digital revolution that has been the case for the past decade. Apps have...
KRA Proposes New IT System to Monitor Daily Business Sales
The use of IT services has long been used by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to meet tax targets and identify tax cheats in...
KRA to Crack Down on Some E-commerce and Informal Online Businesses that Don’t Pay Tax
People engage in businesses of all kinds. However, the growth of social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook have made it easier...
KRA Clears the Air on Alleged Halt of Filing of Tax Returns
A couple of hours, a local blog pushed a story that alleged that Kenya’s tax collector arm KRA had axed keying in of PAYE...
KRA Starts Mobile Money and Bank Data Corroboration to Nab Tax Cheats
The other day, we learned that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was planning to hone it tax-collecting practices by digging into mobile money data....
KRA Earmarks Mobile Money Transaction Data to Boost Tax Volume
The legal framework that governs the boundaries of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) in terms of how far it should stretch its taxing hand...
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to Disable PINs Missing on iTax by August 31
Doing things at the last minute has become part of our culture; it is inherently Kenyan to try beat a deadline, which often ends...
Companies Are Popularizing White Hat Hacking – And It’s Lucrative
White hat or ethical hacking, which involves the application of penetration methodologies to gauge a company’s IT security and susceptibility to vulnerabilities, is being...
NTSA to Roll-out Automated Transfer of Logbooks from January 2017
The NTSA is a body charged with the mandate of managing the transport sector in Kenya while at the same time ensuring a reduction...
Kenya Revenue Authority exempts Hailing Services from VAT payments, Owners to bear Burden
This move may prove unpopular with traditional taxi owners
KRA hits Zuku’s Parent Company Wananchi Group with a Kshs. 3.4 Billion Tax Claim
The Kenya Revenue Authority is demanding Kshs. 3.4 Billion from Zuku's parent company Wanachi Group. The tax demand originates from Wananchi subsidiaries Wananchi Group Holdings...
Kenya Revenue Authority Loses Tax suit Against Airtel Kenya
A while back, we told you that the Kenya Revenue Authority had filed a suit against Airtel Kenya seeking Kshs. 531 Million in back...
KRA seeks Kshs. 531 Million from Airtel Kenya in defaulted taxes
Airtel Kenya has been in the news lately with regards to the renewal of its license. Airtel Kenya’s license expired in February 2015 yet...
KEeping It Local: Windows Phone Apps for Kenya
As mobile landscape in Kenya transitions from “dumb” feature phones to smartphones, the need for apps with local content grows every day. Apps enable...
