2024: The year KRA trained its guns on paybill, till numbers

An employee of Kenya Revenue Authority assists a client to file  iTax returns at Nyeri Region Headquarter Office,on June 29,2019.Only a handful of clients turned up to file their iTax returns at the last minutes as compared to the previous years  .[Kibata Kihu/Standard]

The government is yet to provide further details on how mobile payment termination points will be used as tax registers, an exercise that was supposed to commence during the Christmas holidays.

The move is among the strategies that would improve collections by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), with small businesses poised to be the main target.

Senior Advisor to President William Ruto’s Council of Economic Advisors, Moses Kuria announced the move during the 2024 KRA Tax Summit in October 2024.