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Kenya Revenue Authority staff assists a client to file tax returns in Nyeri. [File, Standard]

The National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi has laid bare the challenges facing revenue collection, saying that some of the taxman’s systems are not working optimally.

The CS, who was speaking during the ongoing Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Summit 2024 in Nairobi, Monday, cited iTax and the iCMS (Integrated Customs Management System), as some of the systems that are either outdated or not working as they should.

While KRA’s revenue collection has been increasing progressively in the last five years, hitting Sh2.4 trillion in the 2023/24 financial year, out of the target of Sh2.5 trillion, Mbadi said that there is more potential in the economy citing VAT as one of the areas.

He blamed the systems for failure by the taxman to collect revenue commensurate to the size of Kenya’s economy.

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