{"id":200608,"date":"2025-06-21T02:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-plans-reforms-to-make-vat-leading-tax-category-source\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:16:28","slug":"kenya-kra-plans-reforms-to-make-vat-leading-tax-category-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-plans-reforms-to-make-vat-leading-tax-category-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KRA Plans Reforms to Make VAT Leading Tax Category Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) seeks to make the value-added tax (VAT) category the leading source of tax for the country through digital reforms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Medium and Small Taxpayers Commissioner George Obell gave the example of Kenya&#8217;s electronic Tax Invoice Management System (eTIMS), a platform that has significantly boosted VAT compliance, reduced fraud, and enhanced revenue performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">eTIMS has enabled real-time transaction monitoring and automated enforcement, helping KRA detect and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200461.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) seeks to make the value-added tax (VAT) category the leading source of tax for the country through digital reforms. Medium and Small Taxpayers Commissioner George Obell gave the example of Kenya&#8217;s electronic Tax Invoice Management System (eTIMS), a platform that has significantly boosted VAT compliance, reduced fraud, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,11251,4688,430,28243,6301,257,5212,7580,12486,254,8352,8328],"class_list":["post-200608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-category","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kra","tag-leading","tag-news","tag-plans","tag-reforms","tag-source","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-vat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}