Times Tower, the headquarters of the KRA, in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will
beginning September deactivate taxpayers who have not uploaded their
profiles on the iTax platform as its steps up the fight with tax cheats.
The
taxman, through a newspaper notice, has asked all taxpayers who have
not migrated their Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) to the iTax
system to do so by August 31.
The KRA also says
taxpayers registered on iTax but who are not filing their returns or
filing nil returns despite evidence of them being in active business
face deregistration in four weeks.
“KRA therefore
notifies the general public that those who have not updated their PINs
on iTax should do so by August 31 and commence filing immediately,” the
notice states.
“Taxpayers who have not filed any return
for the last three months will be considered as not trading and their
PINs rendered inactive,” it added.
Fifty per cent of the 4.8 million registered taxpayers — 2.4 million people — failed to meet the KRA’s June 30 deadline for filing returns.
The
number is higher than the 2.3 million Kenyans who breached the tax
return filing deadline within the same period in the 2015 financial
year.Express
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