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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>@Grace B, do we have a law that would facilitate this? Or is KRA being over enthusiastic? How much would they really net in guys transacting a few thousands? <br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:09:05 +0300<br>Subject: [kictanet] KRA's radical plan to catch tax cheats<br>From: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>CC: nmutungu@gmail.com<br>To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="ecxgmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;"><p style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px;">Listers, </p><p style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px;">KRA is targeting mobile money as part of the agency’s financial data gathering scheme that is meant to monitor businesses and individuals who are not paying their fair share of taxes.</p><p style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px;">People familiar with the plan said the taxman is at an advanced stage of rolling out a number crunching mechanism that will use electronic data to suggest incomes of those using mobile money to pay bills and make purchases.</p><p style="color:rgb(128,128,128);font-size:17px;font-family:Georgia,'ITC Century W01 Light';line-height:25px;">Full article here: <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/KRA-radical-plan-to-catch-tax-cheats/-/996/3196496/-/brq96h/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/KRA-radical-plan-to-catch-tax-cheats/-/996/3196496/-/brq96h/-/index.html</a></span></p></div>-- <br><div class="ecxgmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Grace L.N. Mutung'u <br>Nairobi Kenya<br>Skype: gracebomu<br>Twitter: @Bomu<br><br><<a href="http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu" target="_blank">http://www.diplointernetgovernance.org/profile/GraceMutungu</a>></div><div><br></div><div>PGP ID : 0x33A3450F<br><br></div></div></div>
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