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Kenya Tax Law Library/KRA guidance
KRA's operational instructions: how eTIMS onboarding actually works, portal error handling, deadline notices and the practical interpretations SMEs are held to daily.
Why this law matters
KRA guidance is what its staff and systems actually do. We mirror the key official eTIMS/VAT PDFs in our forms library so the documents stay reachable when KRA's site moves them.
Official text: KRA eTIMS portal & guidelines
The provisions that matter
What it saysDefine eTIMS versions (OSCU/VSCU, mobile, online portal, paypoint), activation steps, and the phased rollout of obligations by taxpayer segment.
What it means for your businessWhich eTIMS variant you must run and when is defined here — and it is what our eTIMS diagnostic reasons over.
What it saysKRA's legally binding announcements about filing deadline changes, iTax/eTIMS maintenance windows and amnesty procedures.
What it means for your businessWhen a deadline moves or a portal breaks, this is the document that moved it — and our deadline calendar and status pages track it so you don't have to.
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