The Treasury is seeking exemption for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to access sensitive personal data like details of properties owned and bank accounts operated by taxpayers without a court warrant in fresh efforts to catch tax cheats.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung’u has proposed to amend the Data Protection Act, 2019, through the Finance Bill, to allow the KRA unfettered access to sensitive information held by data controllers and processors, including banks, telecoms operators, utilities, schools, land registries and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA).
