It has emerged that six university chancellors risk prosecution over unpaid taxes.
The six are among the chancellors of eleven universities, which failed to remit Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
KRA has now announced a crackdown on all the institutions that failed to live up to the expectations of the taxman.
The affected universities include Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Technical University of Kenya, University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University.
The management of the institutions has been asked to pay billions of the unpaid taxes failure to which action will be taken against them with immediate effect.
The taxman has listed Rongo University, Moi University, Egerton University, Garissa University College and Pwani University, Multimedia University, and Maasai Mara University among others for defaulting on remitting the taxes.
KRA indicates that the universities owe the government a total of Sh9.7 billion in unpaid taxes.
The taxman has now embarked on probing senior officials at the institutions following the revelation in a bid to recover the debt owed.
The authority has also attached bank accounts to the process as it seeks to recover the said amount.
This move comes at a time when the government has affirmed that it will not relent on the war against tax evasion.