Shock for KCSE exam markers as KRA demands more funds

Education PS Belio Kipsang (third right) and Attorney General Kihara Kariuki (second right) hand over examination material to a school principal in Thika town last year. [File, Standard]

The Government is demanding about Sh9,000 from every teacher who marked Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams last year out of the Sh30,000 pay they received.

The 14,000 teachers hired by the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) to mark the KCSE scripts last year were paid via mobile money and now the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says they did not pay taxes for the ‘side hustle.’ This is despite Knec having withheld five per cent of the pay as tax remitted to KRA.