President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday ordered a review and restructuring of the country's revenue collection system.
During a status update on the Joint National and Resource Mapping (JNRM) project at KICC, he directed the Commission on Revenue Allocation, Council of Governors, National Treasury and KRA to form a multi-agency team.
The principal aim of the team shall be to formulate a single revenue collection system that will integrate the national and county government systems.
Uhuru revealed that at present, there are 11 different revenue collection systems which don't integrate with both the national and county governments.
He regretted that the overlapping systems severely limit the amount of revenue collected.
The multi-agency team that will be formed was also instructed to make considerations of JNRM.
JNRM is another multi-agency project launched in 2018 to develop and facilitate the provision of secure up-to-date geospatial data.
The team has updated 75 topographical maps, drawn six full county maps and digitised the cadastral plans for Nairobi City County.
"These survey and mapping projects are necessary because Kenya has relied on inaccurate and outdated maps for too long, for our physical planning, boundaries and demarcation processes, mapping of natural resources and other planning requirements," explained President Kenyatta.
Initial projections had indicated the production of a single map sheet would cost Ksh148 million, but the multi-agency team produced them for Ksh70,000 each.
The entire project was estimated to cost Ksh7 billion, but through pooling of resources, the cost was cut to Ksh2 billion.
