Kenya should seal revenue leaks

KRA Commissioner General John Njiraini. [PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI/STANDARD]

Two stories carried in last Friday’s edition of The Standard should concern the mandarins at State House and The Treasury.

The lead story on the business page reported on measures the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is adopting to reduce the widening gap between its annual target and the actual collections. The second story reported the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) Director General Francis Wangusi, saying the country is losing huge amounts of money to unscrupulous communications providers who have found an easy way of offering cheap internationals calls that do not include payment of any fees or taxes.