Win For Employed Kenyans After KRA Changes In Filing Of Tax Returns
KRA said the move is part of its ongoing effort to integrate its tax systems with other government databases to streamline compliance.
Viral Tea Ke Writer 
Salaried employees have received a major reprieve after the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) introduced a simplified process for filing annual income tax returns.
Under the new system, workers will only need to enter their National ID numbers on iTax, after which the platform will automatically generate their tax information.
Key details such as gross earnings and statutory deductions for the relevant financial year will be auto-filled, eliminating the need to manually enter data from P9 forms as was previously required.
Photo of a laptop logged into KRA's iTax website. /X
KRA said the move is part of its ongoing effort to integrate its tax systems with other government databases to streamline compliance.
"Data is going to become, or has become, our greatest asset, so we want to see how we integrate it into various data systems internally so that we do not have siloed systems but integrated systems," said KRA Commissioner General Humphrey Wattang'a.
"For instance, we want to integrate with business registration systems and citizen registration systems so that we can easily prepopulate data."
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says the latest changes are part of a wider plan to make tax compliance easier for both individuals and businesses. The agency’s digitisation efforts are being shaped through collaboration with other government bodies.
Every year, salaried Kenyans are required to declare their income tax, with returns serving as a record of income earned within a given financial year.
Legally, anyone with a KRA Personal Identification Number (PIN) must file a return annually, even if they did not earn any income.
The update follows closely after KRA shut down its iTax portal less than two months ago, marking the end of the filing period for 2024 income tax returns.
Earlier this month, KRA rolled out a new login feature on its iTax platform, enabling taxpayers to access services using their National ID numbers.
This update follows widespread public outcry over challenges experienced while trying to access the system, particularly during tax return deadlines.
