The Kiambu County government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to enable the latter to collect property taxes and single business permits fees on its behalf.
KRA’s commissioner of domestic taxes Benson Korongo said the partnership was a pilot project before it is spread across all counties. He said it will give the county government leverage on KRA’s iTax platform thereby payments can be made through any of it’s 37 banks as well as through mobile telephony.
“The implementation will include a joint enforcement approach by both parties making it hard for defaulters to operate undetected,” said Korongo.
During the event held at the Kiambu county headquarters and witnessed by Governor William Kabogo and the county finance executive Mary Nguli, Korongo said the same was a culmination of a collaboration journey taken by KRA and the county to seal revenue leakages and ultimately plough back revenue which the county is currently losing to unscrupulous taxpayers.
Kabogo reiterated that in the last financial year the county collected Sh2.5 billion which was only Sh800 million of it’s Sh3.3 billion target, adding that the MoU is aimed at improving the county’s revenue collection efficiency.
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