National Treasury Principal Secretary Chris Kiptoo has called on the business community to proactively pay their taxes.
Kiptoo further urged the business community to champion compliance initiatives to enable the government to collect taxes and provide critical services and development programmes.
“I want to encourage everyone to be patriotic and pay their correct share of taxes. This will create a fair and competitive business environment, grow our economy and enable us to be self-reliant,” he said.
Kiptoo was speaking during a stakeholder engagement event bringing together the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Eldoret Business Association.
KRA commissioner general Humphrey Wattanga noted that the authority has been implementing a more facilitative service-focused approach in tax collection while making it easy to pay taxes.
“We are keen to get honest feedback from the business community to enable us to improve our service offering to taxpayers,” he said.
He reiterated KRA’s commitment to collaborate with stakeholders in implementing compliance programmes that respond to taxpayers’ unique needs.
“I want to appeal to all stakeholders to continue engaging with us as we work collectively to better serve you. We will enhance our focus on taxpayer education and staff integrity. We will also collaborate to ensure, with your support, the Tax Amnesty and eTIMS programmes successfully respond to our revenue goals,” he added.
Wattanga was accompanied by the Commissioner for Domestic Taxes Rispah Simiyu among other senior staff.
The Eldoret Business Association chairman Jackson Kiprono welcomed the rallying call by the PS and committed to continuously engage with KRA to resolve various taxation challenges.
His comments were echoed by the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Erick Rutto
KRA is currently implementing country-wide stakeholder engagement forums to enhance tax literacy and promote goodwill for the payment of taxes.
