KRA’s 30-Year Journey, From Typewriters to APIs
KRA’s 30-Year Journey, From Typewriters to APIs
Back in 1995, revenue personnel operated from cramped and different offices with little more than Remington typewriters and paper files stashed in closely guarded registries across separate departments. Then, the tax departments collectively realised Ksh 122 billion, not a bad sum for a “developing” economy. Fast-forward three decades later after all revenue departments were merged into one entity, Kenya Revenue Authority(KRA), now sits at Nairobi’s 140 metres tall and 38 floor Times Tower, where it conducts its operations via cloud-based systems, mobile apps and even WhatsApp chatbots.
With its latest tax collection peaking Ksh 2.5 trillion[2], a truly exponential jump, KRA revenues are ...
Date: 02 October 2025 Comments: 0


