New VAT system nets 35 000 cheats despite outcry by audit firms

Caxton Masudi Ngeywo, Ag.Chief manager (Investigation Department) Kenya Revenue Authority demonstrating how they carry out their work. [Mbugua Kibera]

The Kenya Revenue Authority has defended its use of an automated system to police remittances from value added tax by large taxpayers.

It said the system had made it easy to flag tax cheats and bring them to book. The taxman said the new automated VAT system - VAT Automated Assessment (VAA) - had netted over 35,000 tax claims that could have defrauded it of Sh22 billion in January 2018.