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Simba system faulted long before recent tax evasion fraud

Times Tower building that houses Kenya Revenue Authority offices. 

Long before the extensive tax evasion syndicate involving tax collecting agents and Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officials came to the fore, it had been clear that the now obsolete Simba system was easy to manipulate.

A fierce battle, including court cases, had been staged against the deployment of a more effective system that should have gone live early last year.

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