Thousands of suppliers, businesses hit by outage on KRA’s eTIMS systems

eTIMS

An electronic tax register. The prolonged downtime of the eTIMS system is likely to trigger mismatches between what was actually transacted and what is captured in the system during the downtime period.

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Thousands of users were, as at Friday evening, still reeling from inconvenience due to an outage on the Kenya Revenue Authority’s (KRA) electronic business invoicing platform, eTIMS.

What started as a 20-hour-long scheduled maintenance between Wednesday 6pm and Thursday 2pm ended up prolonging into the weekend as KRA left taxpayers at a loss on what to do regarding the generation of invoices to support their transactions and make claims on deductible expenses.

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