Treasury Principal Secretary Chris Kiptoo is hopeful that the government will raise more revenue in the coming days.
According to him, KRA has 20 million registered pins but less than a half of them are active.
“We think there is hope for us to really raise revenue because there are many people not paying revenue. KRA has 20 million registered pins there are only 8.5 million that are active and even those 8.5 are not paying taxes,” Kiptoo said during the ongoing government retreat in Naivasha.
He further dispelled claims that Kenyans are overtaxed, adding that Kenyans just lack knowledge on taxation.
“It is more about education and awareness. We seem to have lost this story around taxation where people are saying we are overtaxed. I don’t think myself we are especially if you do comparisons with other countries,” he said.
At the same time, he noted that if it was easy for Kenyans to contribute in fundraisers very often then taxes should not be a problem.
“If Kenyans are paying harambee, especially where I come from, every weekend everybody is paying Harambee and is willing, so you don’t struggle. How comes when in it comes to paying taxes we have struggling, we need patriotism where everybody is paying taxes because it is good for us,”Kiptoo said
