This archive report was first published on 15 August 2019.
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has set its sights on 600 tax evaders in the 2019/2020 financial year, a significant increase from the 222 cases flagged in the previous year.
According to KRA Deputy Commissioner for Investigation and Enforcement Edward Karanja, the agency has devised a new mechanism to catch tax cheats, involving a prosecution-guided investigation.
"For this financial year, we conduct a prosecution-guided investigation so that those people who are not paying taxes know that we will catch up with them. We intend to proactively detect, deter, and prosecute the tax evaders," Karanja said.
The tax collector is targeting to collect Sh15 billion from filed cases on tax evaders, up from Sh8.5 billion in the previous year. This includes an additional Sh5 billion collected in 2018/19 and 2017/2018 through the Investigations, Prosecution, and Publicity strategy.
Some of the leads will include informers, referrals, and other agencies, as well as reports from the Auditor General and the Public Accounts Committee.
The efforts will be carried out across the five KRA centers in Nairobi, Central, Mombasa, Western, and Rift Valley.
Published on August 15, 2019.
