By COLLINS OMULOMore by this AuthorThe Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has taken over revenue collection in NairobiThe taxman was on Friday gazetted as the principal revenue collector for the capital city by Allan Igambi, who is the county's Finance and Economic Planning executive. KRA will start managing City Hall’s internal revenue collection from March 16 until 2022. The move came shortly after the gazettement of Mr Igambi by Governor Mike Sonko as the substantive Finance CEC, replacing Pauline Kahiga. AdvertisementMr Yatani, speaking during the handover, said the takeover will not affect City Hall staff working in the Finance department. The decision to have KRA collect revenue on behalf of Nairobi County was arrived at following the signing of the Deed of Transfer between Nairobi County government and the State with the aim of enhancing efficiency and improving revenue collection,” said Mr Yatani.

Source: Daily Nation March 07, 2020 10:51 UTC