KRA now blocks payments to tax-dodging State contractors

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Kenya Revenue Authority headquarters in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has completed the integration of its electronic tax invoicing system with the government’s central payment platform.

The move gives the taxman real-time visibility into hundreds of billions of shillings in public procurement transactions and effectively blocks suppliers from receiving state payments without a clean tax record.

The integration between the Electronic Tax Invoice Management System (eTIMS) and the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS), announced in a joint public notice with the National Treasury on Tuesday, creates an automated checkpoint that ties government payments directly to suppliers’ tax compliance.