AI and taxes: Lessons for Kenya from Latvia, Armenia and S. Africa

A model of an electronic tax register machine used for automatic data transmission in 2021.

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

This year marks exactly two decades since Kenya made its foray into the integration of technology in taxation and domestic resource mobilisation.

In 2005, the Kibaki administration, stewarded by then Finance minister David Mwiraria, introduced Electronic Tax Registers (ETRs) embedded with capabilities for the generation of invoices for Value Added Tax registered tax payers. At the time, it was a huge leap!

PAYE Tax Calculator

Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.