KRA seeks bigger budget to improve staff welfare

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) wants the government to more than double its budgetary allocation, to at least two percent of exchequer revenues they collect each year, as part of its strategy to boost capacity in its goal to collect Sh28 trillion in five years.

The National Treasury allocated the taxman only Sh22.33 billion in the current financial year, which translated to about 0.9 percent of its total ordinary revenue collections in the last financial year, but KRA says it needs more than double the amount to be able to meet its goals.