Kenya: Now taxman adopts diplomacy to grow revenue

It will now be possible for any individual or business having a tax dispute with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to demand to know why the authority is planning to visit them, what it is seeking to find out, what documents it is seeking and when the planned compliance, audit or investigations processes will be complete before agreeing to host the taxman.

This follows the launch of new rules and regulations that will govern how KRA notifies and carries out a tax audit on any tax payer, conducts searches and investigations and makes conclusions before any dispute ends up at the soon to be established tax tribunal or before a court of law.