Times Tower Building in Nairobi which hosts Kenya Revenue Offices (KRA).[Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]
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The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is targeting tens of thousands of digital taxi drivers in a new crackdown to plug a Sh47.3 billion revenue shortfall, a move that risks squeezing drivers’ margins in an already strained gig economy.
The push, which mandates all ride-hailing drivers to issue e-TIMS-compliant invoices for every trip, represents one of the agency's most aggressive efforts to formalise a historically hard-to-tax sector amid repeated collection failures.
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