{"id":221500,"date":"2026-01-22T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-to-enable-tax-filing-via-whatsapp\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:02:49","slug":"kenya-kra-to-enable-tax-filing-via-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-to-enable-tax-filing-via-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KRA to Enable Tax Filing Via Whatsapp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is rolling out new digital tools to make tax compliance simpler and more affordable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Commissioner General Humphrey Wattanga said the 24-hour WhatsApp chatbot offers 15 services, allowing users to ask queries and file returns without visiting KRA offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He added that the authority is investing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to further enhance tax management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">KRA chairman Ndiriitu Muriithi said upgrades to IT systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220419.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) is rolling out new digital tools to make tax compliance simpler and more affordable. Commissioner General Humphrey Wattanga said the 24-hour WhatsApp chatbot offers 15 services, allowing users to ask queries and file returns without visiting KRA offices. He added that the authority is investing in artificial intelligence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221501,"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":[258,256,18227,25567,4688,430,28243,257,254,8352,12236],"class_list":["post-221500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-enable","tag-filing","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kra","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-whatsapp"],"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\/221500","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=221500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}