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Tax cheats ditch mobile payments to beat KRA

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Times Tower in Nairobi, the headquarters of Kenya Revenue Authority.

Photo credit: File photo

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has flagged a growing number of business owners ditching mobile merchant payment accounts and reverting to cash transactions since it enhanced compliance checks in major towns last month.

The taxman said it has noted a trend where businesses, which used to get payments through Lipa Na M-Pesa Buy Goods Till numbers, are now asking customers to pay cash.