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Salaried Kenyans can finally breathe easy when it comes to filing taxes after the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) rolled out a simpler system that takes the headache out of annual income tax returns.
All employees will now need to key in their National ID number on the iTax portal and the system will automatically pull up details like gross pay and statutory deductions for the year.
It’s a big shift from the old days, when workers had to dig through their P9 forms and manually enter the numbers, a process that was not only time-consuming but also prone to mistakes.
The change comes as part of KRA’s broader digital transformation, which involves linking its databases with other government systems.
“Data is going to become, or has become, our greatest asset, so we want to see how we integrate it into various data systems internally so that we do not have siloed systems but integrated systems,” said KRA Commissioner General Humphrey Wattang’a.
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| KRA Commissioner General Humphrey Wattang’a |
“For instance, we want to integrate with business registration systems and citizen registration systems so that we can easily prepopulate data,” he added.
The Commissioner General emphasized that the move is aligned with KRA’s strategy to streamline tax compliance for both individuals and businesses.
“Our strategy and our digitisation journey are highly informed by what has been developed through our engagements with government agencies,” he noted.
By law, all Kenyans with a KRA Personal Identification Number (PIN) are required to file annual returns, regardless of whether they earned an income during the year.
The announcement comes just weeks after KRA officially closed its iTax platform for the 2024 filing season.
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