As you report tax offenses, this site keeps your identity 100% anonymous. You may be asked to share personal details in certain proceedings. Know and exercise your rights at all times.
- 1. Right to report
- 2. Right to remain anonymous
- 3. Right to be protected in case of court witnessing
- 4. Right to receive reward should you opt to
- 5. Right to get updates on the proceedings of the investigation and case
Description
Failure to pay taxes to the Authority by individuals, organizations, companies, manufacturers etc.
These taxes include:
- Income tax
- Pay as You Earn (PAYE)
- Value Added Tax (VAT)
- Excise Duty
- Import Duty
Company Offences
- The company is withholding PAYE for the employees but does not remit to KRA.
- The company does not declare all their income despite making huge profits in tenders offered by the County Government and State corporations.
Description
Bribery occurs when a person dishonestly gives or receives a benefit as an inducement or reward for doing or omitting to do what one is already under duty to do or omit to do.
- Giver: To promise, offer, or give something of value to a person in order to obtain services or gain influence
- Recipient:To receive or demand, or agree to receive or demand a private benefit so as to provide public services/goods.
Company Offences
The Officer received Kshs. 5 Million for aiding a taxpayer to evade taxes through Under declaration of Import duty and VAT
Description
a) Tax Fraud
Occurs when an individual or business entity willfully and intentionally falsifies information on a tax return in order to limit the amount of tax liability.
- Falsification of documents
- Over valuing or under valuing of goods
- Failure to remit revenues
- Maintaining two sets of accounts with the intend to evade tax
Company Offences
The company claimed fictitious Purchases through falsification of Documents.
They also maintained two sets of books for purposes of concealing income.
Description
b) Conflict of Interest
A conflict of interest is a situation in which a KRA staff has a private interest in a matter that concerns KRA and he/she fails to disclose the private interest to his employer. It is not an offence if the public officer has disclosed his interest and has been allowed to participate in the decision-making process in accordance with the conflict of interest laws & regulations.
Examples:
- Self-dealing: A KRA staff doing a business with KRA without disclosing e.g. a Customs Officer(s) running a clearing firm(s), or a Revenue Officer(s) who running a tax consultancy firm
- Outside employment: Somebody holding two jobs in which the interest of one job conflicts with the other.
- Family interest: A KRA officer employs a spouse, child, or other close relative or where goods or services are purchased from such a relative or a firm controlled by a relative.
- Gifts: Gifts from “friends” who also do business with the person receiving the gifts (Such gifts may include things of value such as transportation and accommodation).
Company Offences
The KRA Officer doubles up as a Taxpayer Account manager and an Auditor as private practice.
Description
Involves a KRA staff using his/her position to confer a benefit to oneself or anyone else.
Company Offences
The Officer received Kshs. 5 Million for aiding a taxpayer to evade taxes through Under declaration of Import duty and VAT.
Description
Means the importation, exportation or carriage coastwise, or the removal from or into Kenya of goods with intent to defraud the customs, or to evade any prohibition of, restriction on regulation or condition as to, importation, exportation, carriage coastwise or removal, of goods.
Company Offences
The company colluded with the KRA verification officer to conceal ethanol in gunny bags disguised as chicken feeds.
Description
These are goods which are:
Manufactured for export but are offered for use within Kenya without payment of the duty due thereon.
Examples:
- Vehicles on transit to neighboring countries being diverted for local use
- Goods for transit diverted to the local market
- Good manufactured for export but offered for use within the country e.g. ethanol
Company Offences
The company was meant to export Super Match cigarettes to South Sudan but upon exiting the Kenya Border, the Truck was diverted back through the Porous Borders and goods resold in Local Market.
Description
This option will take care of the categories that have not been mentioned above.
Company Offences
We can use any of the above.
Generate an anonymous ID and password for future use.
Tell us what happened and which parties were involved.
Receive updates on proceedings after verification.
- Financial Records(Profit and Loss, Audited accounts)
- Bank Statements
- Bank Details,Paybill Details, Till Numbers
- Pin Number
- Location of the Business or offender
- Mobile contacts of the violator
The system will generate a unique identifier that you will use when following up on what you have reported. In case you forget your log in credentials please note that you will have to register all over again.
The reward is dependent on collection of revenue on tax fraud/Tax evasion schemes. The reward includes whichever is less of, 5% of the taxes or duties so recovered or KES 5 million per case (KRA Act cap 469 Section 5A).
60 working day for completion timelines.
Investigation/Auditing for collection of taxes can go beyond the above to a maximum of two years depending on the nature of the case.
If you seek to be rewarded then you forgo your anonymity. You will therefore be needed to provide your bank details and your personal details. You will also be required to fill IMF 001 form in duplicate.
- KRA has a whistle blower policy in place
- KRA Collaborates with witness protection agency.
- Collection of tax liabilities
- Asset recovery mechanisms
- Disciplinary action against staff
- Prosecution of offenders in case of Fraud.
- A letter to the Commissioner General:
To the Commissioner General
Complains and Information Centre KRA
P.O Box 48240-00100 Nairobi - Email:
corruptionreporting@kra.go.ke
cic@kra.go.ke - Telephone:
0726 984 668
020 281 7700
020 281 7800 - Report in personal
Corruption reporting office
26 th Floor, Times Tower
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