Kenya Revenue Authority offices. Photo/NairobiNews
From Thursday a number of Kenyans may be blocked from accessing critical public services as the Kenya Revenue Authority moves to punish tax cheats with the termination of personal identification numbers (PINs).On Tuesday, KRA published a public notice that it would push ahead with a controversial plan to deregister all taxpayers who have not migrated their profiles to the online platform beginning September 1 as part of a wider plan to get rid of tax cheats.The public notice said that
“KRA has noted that there are taxpayers, who have not migrated their PINs into iTax while others, who are already on iTax, are either not filing or are filing nil or no returns”.“KRA, therefore, notifies the general public that those who have not updated their PINs in iTax should do so by 31 August 2017 and commence filing immediately.”KRA said taxpayers who are yet to migrate their PIN information to the iTax — KRA’s online tax payment portal will also be taken out of the system with serious consequences to their businesses.