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Ruto fires new warning to KRA staff over tax evasion syndicate

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President Ruto poses for a photo after filing his tax returns at KRA headquarters on Friday. [PSCU]

President William Ruto's stunning charge that rogue workers at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) are colluding with tax evaders has renewed calls for a clean-up of the tax agency.

The President said there is an elaborate tax evasion syndicate involving rogue KRA employees, warning this could partly be the missing link in the taxman's failure to achieve targets.

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