KRA needs wisdom and common sense more than laws on taxation

When President Ruto suggested a tax revenue target of at least Sh5 trillion for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), this column shared her reservations as to how realistic these numbers were. One year later into Kenya Kwanza's administration, there is no evidence or indicators that the country will ever achieve such an ambitious revenue target any time soon.

I do not take this position out of pessimism. The view is inspired by the words of a famous New York Professor of Statistics E. Edwards Deming who lived through the second half of the 20th century. He said "In God we trust; all others must bring data".