More than three-quarters of registered companies have snubbed the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)’s electronic tax invoice management system (eTIMS), dealing a blow to efforts to drive compliance and curb tax evasion.
Only 120,000 registered taxpayers with business income signed up to eTIMs in the year to June, representing 18.1 percent of about 663,000 firms in taxman’s books, according to an internal document seen by the Business Daily. This means an estimated 543,000, or 81.9 percent, of firms in the KRA register did not subscribe to eTIMs.
