The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has offered millions in rewards to Kenyans in a bid to ensure efficiency in revenue collection.
Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, KRA officials confirmed that the institution launched the reward scheme where informants will receive up to Ksh2 million.
According to one of the officials, an informer was rewarded in September after successfully reporting a case of tax fraud/tax evasion.
According to the plan, the informants are set to receive either Ksh2 million or 5 per cent of the taxes or duties so recovered, whichever is less of the two.
"Informers may submit information either in person, in writing, by telephone, or through email," a statement on the authority's website reads.
Complaints and Information can be submitted at Times Tower (Nairobi), or KRA investigations and enforcement offices in Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri.
KRA defines tax fraud as a deliberate attempt to illegally obtain a levy benefit through tax evasion.
Tax fraud may include forging books of accounts, using cooked up statements, failing to register as a tax entity, failure to furnish tax returns and failure to pay or withhold taxes.
In late July, President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Swiss counterpart Alain Berset agreed on a framework of asset recovery on funds stashed offshore in Switzerland, Britain and the Islands of Jersey.
Uhuru, in past, has expressed his commitment to fighting corruption in the second term of his presidency as he focuses on accomplishing his legacy project, the Big Four Agenda.
Earlier in July 2017, the Head of State used the proceeds recovered from Smith & Ouzman Chickengate Scandal to buy ambulances to be used in different counties.
Kenya emerged number two globally in the amount of money hidden in tax havens relative to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
