Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta today issued a directive for the creation of a single system of revenue collection to eliminate duplications and wastage of resources.
He said the new system will be used across the 47 county governments and will be integrated with National Government systems.
President Kenyatta said currently counties are using 11 different revenue collection systems, which are not integrated with those used by the National Government or even those used by other counties.
“The bottom line is, this has severely limited the amount of revenue collected by the counties,” said the President.
President @UKenyatta has also asked Commission on Revenue Allocation, Council of Governors, National Treasury and KRA to form a Multi-Agency Team whose principal aim shall be to deliver on a single revenue collection system that is integrated with National and County Govt Systems pic.twitter.com/cNBEVvnRrL
— State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) February 7, 2019
He spoke at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre where he was updated on the progress of a multi-agency geospatial mapping project of Kenya.
“To eliminate this duplication of efforts and waste of resources, I hereby direct the Commission on Revenue Allocation, the Council of Governors, the National Treasury and the Kenya Revenue Authority to form a Multi-Agency Team whose principal aim shall be to deliver on a single revenue collection system, that is integrated with National Government Systems and to be used across all 47 Counties,” the President ordered.
He said the Task force working on the revenue collection system must take into account the work done by the Multi-Agency Team on Joint National Resource Mapping Project.