From the BD story:

"Mr John Njiraini, the commissioner for domestic tax at KRA, however warned employees to ensure their returns were accurately presented by their employers."

Now how do you do that? Why not simply fill it yourself?

Dear Boss,
Kindly furnish me with a copy of the tax return submitted to KRA on my behalf for record purposes.

Your humble employee servant.

C.C. Ceaser

@accelriskconsult; This is the advert your talking about: http://www.kra.go.ke/not...g-income-tax-return.pdf

Read it again and you will see what I mean by "very carefully drafted so that it doesn't say in BLACK and WHITE that employees are not expected to fill returns for 2010 income"

It says in part: "KRA wishes to notify the public that the ammendment to section 52b(1) of the income tax act concerning the filing returns by employees does not affect the following cases... Employees qualifying under the ammended requirement who wish to file returns may continue doing so..."

Now, that announcement is not clear whether they are talking about 2010 or 2011 year of income.

The top left-hand corner of this ad reads: "Your year 2010 income tax return is due"

KRA is usually clear about requirements and this time round I am wondering why they are beating about the bush. Perhaps they are also not sure what the status is.

This is indeed a confusing directive. Now now, I received some small checks for dividends... 200 - 300 bob. Do I also have to declare this? I was so unmoved by the amounts that I dont even have a record of them! That is IF I banked the check!

Withholding tax on dividends is a final tax. It doesn't go into the tax return.

Think about it: you company makes some profit and pay corporate tax on it. Then from the Profit AFTER tax, it pays you some dividend. The tax on this money has already been paid, hasn't it?