KRA has graduated to your tax accountant,
Courtesy of the Finance Act, 2026.
• Starting in January 2027, it is KRA that shall FIRST tell you, what income it believes you earned in 2026. And what taxes you shall therefore pay.
KRA will do this by generating a pre populated income tax return using the information it already has, such as:
• eTIMS data
• PAYE records
• Withholding tax records
• Plus any other information already in KRA systems
KRA shall then send you this pre-populated return by 31st January 2027.
Once you receive it, you have 2 MONTHS (February and March), and 2 OPTIONS. To either:
• Confirm it. If it is correct. Or,
• Reject & amend it. If KRA got the numbers wrong. And provide your own numbers together with supporting documents.
- If you make your amendments late. Or,
- You do not make any amendments at all,
KRA shall conclude that you have agreed with its assessment, and you shall pay the KRA generated tax bill.
After that, you can use the amended or confirmed return to file your taxes as follows:
• If you are a human being, file by April 30th 2027.
• If you have no flesh & blood (company, partnership, trust, etc), file by June 30th.
(Or the last day of the sixth month after your accounting year ends.)
One more critical mistake to watch.
• Do not assume KRA's numbers are always correct. The law has expressly given you the right to accept or reject the pre-populated return before filing.
Lessons:
• Proper bookkeeping is King in 2026.
• Mark the new tax timelines in your calendar.
Now, reread this slowly.
BREAKING: The son of Uganda’s president - and military chief - Muhoozi Kainerugaba has closed Nation Media Group outlets NTV, Spark TV and Daily Monitor and barricaded their offices, the company says
Fantastic idea in theory.
However, there are approximately 4M cars in Kenya, they only have 19 inspection centers.
Running 7 days a week including public holidays, they'd have to inspect about 11,000 cars per day, 580 per center, 8 hours per day means 72 cars per hour nonstop
Man slams NTSA cameras along Thika Road, says Mt Kenya is being targeted. Ours is to remind him when we called them to join Kenyans in the same Thika Road on June 2024 and 2025, he hid at home😁