The Kenya Revenue Authority said it has configured iTax, the online tax filing system, to automatically capture the data of employers who submit Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax. This effectively leaves employees with the task of reviewing and confirming various data sets which they previously had to key into the system.
“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 to file their returns,” the underperforming agency said in a statement on Friday.
The law requires all persons with KRA PIN to file annual returns between January and June, with those with no source of income such as students required to file NIL returns. KRA commissioner-general John Njiraini has said the enhancement of the iTax to upload PAYE data submitted by employers was the first phase of the ongoing configuration of the system to upload data from third-party systems.