Tax experts in Kenya have raised queries over Kenya Revenue Authority’s stellar performance in a struggling economy, when it announced that it had overturned a more than Ksh31 billion ($289.71 million) revenue collection deficit in less than three months in a Covid-19 ravaged economy to post a surplus for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, breaking an eight-year revenue underperformance jinx.
But in a statement to The EastAfrican, the taxman said its collections were significantly boosted by enforcement measures on non-compliant taxpayers which generated a massive Ksh93.7 billion ($875.7 million) during the 2020/2021 fiscal year and the dispute resolution framework that netted Ksh31.43 billion ($293.73 million) in the same period.
