Government Links Civil Servants Details to KRA tax Systems

February 21, 2024

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 –Government of Kenya has intensified plans to link up civil servants’ details with the tax collecting systems at the Kenya Revenue Authority KRA.

These details convergence will see all required deductions from salaries of civil servants directly linked up to the KRA for automatic deductions.

Graduates quee in long lines at Wabera Street waiting for a chance to get a job interview at the Sarova Stanley that was conducting a massive recruitment for the hospitality departments. The five star hotel was established in 1902 when Nairobi was a stop over station for the lunatic express. May 26, 2018. Picture Kanyiri Wahito

The deductions, according to public service department, will be done in what has been described as a Unified Human Resource system UHR.

The revelations were made public in the 2024 Budget Policy System BPS where integration needs to be completed by July this year 2024.

First, this system was started in July 2023 when it was directly linked to the Kenya Revenue Authority KRA iTax meant to help in the filing of the PAYE tax.

“The government will incorporate the other deductions to enable all remittances to be sent to respective entities including Pension Funds and other employees’ contributions schemes by July 2024,” partly read the BPS. statement.

Three years ago, a task force was constituted by the State Department for Public Service. This Task Force was mandated to help come up with a prototype for the UHR to replace the Government Human Resource Information System GHRIS.

Speaking then, former Public Service Principal Secretary Mary Kimonye explained that the new system would standardise Human Resource practices across the public service, minimise manual Human Resource processes, and create a trusted single source of Human Resource information for decision-making purposes in government.

The government defends that this new platform, will continue to be rolled out in a step-by-step fomart- Phase 1 was undertaken in September 2023 when the system was rolled out in all ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and counties.

The rollout was set to weed out ghost workers on the payroll, whose salary deductions lead to financial losses. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission SRC lauded the system, stating that it would help keep track of national and county government salaries as well as general accounting.

This will then move on to Phase 2 and 3 in that order.