KRA plans to rope SMEs into tax bracket to drive revenue collection

Damaurine Masira (left), of Kenya Revenue Authority Tax Roll Out office demonstrates how to file online tax return using iTax system to Commissioner General John Njiraini  (centre) and Commissioner for Domestic Taxes- Domestic Revenue, Kenya Revenue Authority Alice Owuor  during the media breakfast meeting on iTax campaign at Hotel Intercontinental on 29th April, 2015. [PHOTO: GOVEDI ASUTSA/STANDARD.]

Kenya: Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will seek the services of the county governments in order to bring small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into the tax bracket.

Because majority of SMEs register their businesses with the county governments, the taxman opines that it will be easier to integrate them into the tax bracket and thus enable the Government to meet its financial obligations.