If only all the taxes were put to good use, most people would not refuse, as a business you pay tax, you see no benefits, as an individual you pay tax, you see no services, you even to pay health insurance . What are our taxes used for? paying Mps? Buying guzzlers as hospitals and roads get neglected? As fat cats keep getting fatter as the common man is over taxed as KRA keeps using trial and error methods to try and plug the deficits?

Would wish to know how the landlord/tenant reporting thing went?If I was a landlord and you report me,utalipa..

This is a noble idea, let is see how it works out in implementation phase.

You would never know who reported you. Tax obligations never lapse, and that is what should cause people worry. The records exist, and new data keeps coming in with all these legislative victories they are scoring. Never assume cause KRA has not yet claimed tax since some regulation came into effect that you are off the hook ...they are just incompetent and disorganized.
A day will come when advances in technology will allow them to scrutinize all these mountains of data and reach whatever deep, dark depths you are hiding and take monies owed from you ....

UPDATE:

37B. Commissioner to refrain from assessing tax for income earned outside Kenya

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Commissioner shall refrain from assessing or recovering taxes, penalties or interest in respect of any year of income ending on or before the 31st December, 2016, and from following up on the sources of income under the amnesty where —

(a) that income has been declared for the year 2016 by a person earning
taxable income outside Kenya; and
(b) the returns and accounts for the year 2016 are submitted on or before
the 31st December, 2017:
Provided that this section shall not apply in respect of any tax where the person who should have paid the tax—

(i) has been assessed in respect of the tax or any matter relating
to the tax; or
(ii) is under audit or investigation in respect of the undisclosed
income or any matter relating to the undisclosed income."

The Finance Act 2016 introduced Section 37B into the Tax Procedures Act, 2015. - The Revised Edition 2016 [PDF]

People will keep their cash at home for sure . I see an increase in sales of home safes.

Current political quagmire blinding the citizens from seeing what the taxman is up to, am sure this will be petitioned in a court of law when dust settles down.

I am looking for information regarding tax regulations for those in the diaspora.
What exactly is the law for filing and paying returns for Kenyans out of the country ?

Seconded.
Also I like KRA's method of collecting a flat rate of 10% on rental income up to a certain threshold. Has really streamlined things. If only they could get rid of the cumbersome ITAX app and create one that is straightforward and time saving. Filing rental income returns on ITAX is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle.

Some free advice to Unyee if he wants to curb corruption in Kenya and make KRA revenues soar big time overnight

1. Expand the need for KRA PIN to almost everything in order to widen the tax net. Want your child to join std 1 - toa KRA pin, want to access any single government service; toa PIN, Want to get married, toa PIN. Want your water or stima connected, toa PIN. You get the point.

2. Huge sums of bank balances in any account (say cash balances of over kshs 100 million) should be automatically flagged and deposits into said account subject to scrutiny/reporting by the bank on a monthly basis.

3. Since 90% of the Kenyan economy is informal. Tax at a flat rate per individual/business instead of applying taxes progressively as is done in the formal sector. I hear Nairobi County is switching to this. If this is so, this is a masterstroke. Instead of hoping say a kiosk owner will report all their income (they wont) better to charge them a flat rate fee based on anticipated revenues for the year. E.g 25,000 kshs flat tax for a kiosk owner, but payable in installments. If they claim they did not generate enough revenue to meet the minimum bogey, let them prove it with their receipts, bank deposits, MPESA records etc in order to get the correct assessment.

4. Impose a 50% "unexplained income" tax on bank accounts. If someone makes a 50m cash deposit using gunias in a single day and has no convincing paperwork to prove where they got it. Tax it at 50% while investigations go on, or until the person proves the source of income.

5.Require a KRA PIN and KRA tax compliance certificate for every Kenyan flying into the country from abroad, as part of the entry requirements. This will net all diaspora tax evaders overnight (there are millions of them).

6. Lifestyle audit an absolute MUST for every public servant, in which assets and incomes are explained and audited in depth. 100% tax imposed on any unexplained assets or resources.

7. Conviction by a court of law for grand corruption above a certain threshold (say 1 million kshs) should automatically lead to a 50% gross tax on any and all assets the invididual owns, whether or not they were part of the proceeds of corruption.

8. KRA should pay people 10% of taxes netted on giving information that leads to the netting of a tax evader. Let's say your neighbour has an illegal duka next to you and you report them to KRA, if KRA captures 50,000 kshs worth of lost tax revenue, you will be paid kshs 5000. Make being an informant a full time job for the millions of unemployed youth around the country.

9. Parade grand corruption convicts in handcuffs and in their underwear up and down Kenyatta Avenue once a week
and broadcast live on all TV stations, before promptly returning them to Kamiti, then repeating the same the next week until the sentence is complete

Hayo tu

Nice vigilante justice, but if you want to replace grand corruption with grand inflation, that is how you would do it