KRA restricts eTIMS invoicing locations in fraud crackdown

George Obell during a past interview. He has been apointed as KRA'S Commissioner for the Micro and Small Taxpayers Department (MST).

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The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is deploying a technology that locks electronic tax invoices to specific locations to curb fraud estimated at up to Sh30 billion annually.

The taxman has piloted georeferencing policy whereby the electronic invoices generated on electronic tax invoice management system (eTIMS) are assigned precise geographic coordinates to the locations associated with them, such as a service location or a seller’s address.

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