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Protesters outside Times Tower, the head office of Kenya Revenue Authority. PHOTO | FILE
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has enhanced the filing of tax returns with a new auto-populated process whose source of income is only employment.
Employees will now be required to only input data on pension and annual relief.
The authority has reconfigured its systems to automatically capture data from employers who submit Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax.
“Those of you who are employees, when your employer does PAYE declarations, that information comes with your PIN and iTax is able to pick it and place it in your account,” explained John Njiraini, KRA Commissioner General.
“KRA has enhanced iTax to have an auto-populated return of employment income. This has made it much easier, smoother and faster for employees whose source of income is only employment,” he added in a statement.
Employees have been left with the task of reviewing and confirming data which they previously had to key into the system.
The affected taxpayers have to ensure that the entries reflect a true and correct position for the tax period and report any inconsistencies.
Unemployed Kenyans and business owners will however still be required to fill nil returns and taxes for their businesses respectively.
Taxpayers who will miss the June 30 deadline face a penalty of Sh2, 000 for individuals and Sh10, 000 or five per cent of the tax due for other entities.
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