Rank: Elder Joined: 3/29/2011 Posts: 2,242
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Angelica _ann wrote:Does KRA have internal mechanisms to deal with this before seeking kind of issues before external intervention. Were the guys given fair administrative action? The whole KRA cabal has the hands in the tax money cookie jar literally. Everybody pinches depending on where they are positioned. Big man big size, small man small size. It's like in the Matatu Industry, the conductor has his cut, Jamaa wa stage his cut, driver his cut , the Karao his cut etc and nothing for the matatus owner ( in this case the tax payer). "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." Goethe
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/19/2010 Posts: 3,505 Location: Uganda
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Gathige wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:Does KRA have internal mechanisms to deal with this before seeking kind of issues before external intervention. Were the guys given fair administrative action? The whole KRA cabal has the hands in the tax money cookie jar literally. Everybody pinches depending on where they are positioned. Big man big size, small man small size. It's like in the Matatu Industry, the conductor has his cut, Jamaa wa stage his cut, driver his cut , the Karao his cut etc and nothing for the matatus owner ( in this case the tax payer). I heard a similar story in a KQ thread here.where all but the shareholders have something to take home punda amecheka
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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mkenyan wrote:2012 wrote:I still don't understand why these KRA criminals are being charged and bailed together. It's like banding all the chicken thieves in Kenya and charging them together. The crime could be the same but they did not conspire together to commit the crime. They should all be charged as individuals, each for the crime s/he committed otherwise we're looking at the usual Kenyan predictable corruption PR exercise...
Any lawyers in the house? they have not been charged yet. the investigators have allegedly been investigating them for over four months. then the other friday they are all arrested. then they were taken to court only for the prosecutors to say they need more time to investigate them so they wanted to be allowed to hold them for 21 more days. in effect after all that time the investigators are still not sure whether their actions warrant being charged or not. that is why they are being brought to court as a group. unless you want judicial time to be wasted for the same application to be made in respect of each and every single one of them. in the meantime in our zeal to fight corruption we are ignoring one thing - there is a tendency for the police to nowadays arrest people even before investigations are done and with the worrying support of the courts hold them for long periods of time. in some instances they are innocent people who are never even charged. @mkenyan, I thought by the time a suspect is taken to court there's enough evidence to convict and charges are not based on speculation? Ama? Otherwise it defeats the purpose. I understand they are being held as the investigators conclude but the main meat of the case has already been locked. Or?
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/6/2008 Posts: 3,579
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newfarer wrote:Gathige wrote:Angelica _ann wrote:Does KRA have internal mechanisms to deal with this before seeking kind of issues before external intervention. Were the guys given fair administrative action? The whole KRA cabal has the hands in the tax money cookie jar literally. Everybody pinches depending on where they are positioned. Big man big size, small man small size. It's like in the Matatu Industry, the conductor has his cut, Jamaa wa stage his cut, driver his cut , the Karao his cut etc and nothing for the matatus owner ( in this case the tax payer). I heard a similar story in a KQ thread here.where all but the shareholders have something to take home Same with KPLC, you must pay 1500/- bribe to get a token meter and the storekeeper has his share, and the "wakubwa" are given theirs, otherwise you can buy anything kplc from cables to fuses in almost any electrical shop and the payments go upwards depending on your level, if you want a huge cable kama ya 20k (market price 50k) to 200k (market price 1million) hivi, it will be dropped by the kplc lorry to your site. KPLC keep two sets of accounts as an organisation (like a muhindi dukawalla) and keep people who converted from post paid on their accounts to aid in the confusion. We are all corrupt as Kenyans ,these thieves are local heroes that's why they are hiding their faces. Ras Kienyeji Man
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 9/21/2011 Posts: 2,032
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Only sad thing is that the reason govt agencies have gone overdrive to tackle corruption at KRA and tax evasion by importers is that govt is between a rock and hard place to meet debt obligations.
Since they're not dealing with rootcause (bloated govt and too much dirt / cobwebs the treasury, corruption in ministries and counties), am afraid whatever additional collections to be achieved through these efforts will also be stolen.
You can be sure some fat cat somewhere already strategizing how to reap benefit from the improved collections
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Kenya has never been economically viable and it's probable that it will never be viable. What has been left to those in power since the Delameres is to steal.
Should we expect better days, we need some serious structural, political and ideological changes. These may take long, and most elites may not wish for such changes.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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tycho wrote:Kenya has never been economically viable and it's probable that it will never be viable. What has been left to those in power since the Delameres is to steal.
Should we expect better days, we need some serious structural, political and ideological changes. These may take long, and most elites may not wish for such changes. I can tell you for free that the biggest hindrance to progress in Kenya is a mediocre civil service. And it's by design. You see government must employ its citizens to give hope and for work and that's why most are from the rural. But the employees know that once you are in, it's almost impossible to be let go of. Now, majority of these people do nothing, others get involved in corruption etc. We can never progress with this kind of system. Don't you wonder how all these thousands of employed people can't get anything right? Collecting taxes, duty, aliens, accounting, health, agriculture, anything... you name it.... Imagine if just one ministry operated like Safaricom, eabl or Equity?
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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2012 wrote:tycho wrote:Kenya has never been economically viable and it's probable that it will never be viable. What has been left to those in power since the Delameres is to steal.
Should we expect better days, we need some serious structural, political and ideological changes. These may take long, and most elites may not wish for such changes. I can tell you for free that the biggest hindrance to progress in Kenya is a mediocre civil service. And it's by design. You see government must employ its citizens to give hope and for work and that's why most are from the rural. But the employees know that once you are in, it's almost impossible to be let go of. Now, majority of these people do nothing, others get involved in corruption etc. We can never progress with this kind of system. Don't you wonder how all these thousands of employed people can't get anything right? Collecting taxes, duty, aliens, accounting, health, agriculture, anything... you name it.... Imagine if just one ministry operated like Safaricom, eabl or Equity? The civil service is a product of a government structure that can't work. Even if wanted to be efficient and effective the civil service would still collapse since it has no product to sell. We are still trying to pursue the myth of development as a state. But if we study the global effects of this ideology we see it has been a misadventure. Not even the wazungu seem to have a clue on how best to design and govern economies. But we look up to them anyway for direction.
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