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KRA Commissioner General John Njiraini said reports that the iTax system
has been jammed for the last one month are inaccurate. Photo/FILE
By Nation Reporter
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- KRA Commissioner General John Njiraini said reports that the system has been jammed for the last one month are inaccurate.
The Kenya Revenue Authority has dismissed claims that the attempt to computerise tax collection suffered a major setback.
On Monday, KRA Commissioner General John Njiraini
said reports that the system has been jammed for the last one month are
inaccurate.
"The allegation that iTax has never worked is
false and fallacious. On the contrary, many taxpayers are already using
the system with 93 per cent of Large Taxpayers and 63 per cent of Medium
Taxpayers already enjoying iTax services," he said in a statement.
The Commissioner General said the crisis arose
because of an ill-timed decision to migrate all taxpayers to the iTax
platform on March 1 which resulted in people rushing to upload their
data.
On the allegations touching on the conduct of a
senior KRA staff member, the Commissioner General said they are
addressing the issue and the authority welcomes investigations by the
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
The authority also dismissed claims that a tender was awarded to TATA Consulting Services for iTax maintenance.
iTax was to replace another online system called
Integrated Tax Management System (ITMS) previously used by KRA, which
the public had complained about due to its inefficiencies.
The web-enabled system sought to make tax compliance simple, quick and secure.
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