By EDWIN OKOTH More by this AuthorThe Kenya Revenue Authority is embroiled in a legal battle with vendors of electronic cargo tracking systems, who have sued the taxman to block its control of the system meant to tame tax evasion. The taxman has accused vendors of colluding with cargo owners to dump goods in the local market. The vendors argue that the procurement of the system KRA is using in partnership with other East African revenue collection agencies was not competitively bided for and that the shift to the new system will ruin their businesses. A March 2020 notice that all containerised cargo will have to use RECTS prompted the latest court battle, with KRA maintaining that taxpayers will lose billions in shillings should the plan be suspended. The private tracking platforms are also said to be prone to data manipulation, hacking and their data does not give KRA a holistic view of the tracking process.

Source: Daily Nation July 12, 2020 06:00 UTC