[1] The Authority's core operations are:- Recently, the government of Kenya proposed the renaming of the agency from the current KRA to the Kenya Revenue Service(KRS) in order to portray the agency as a service provider to the citizenry as opposed to a powerful authority.
This is in line with the Kenyan government's efforts to automate service delivery through the e-Citizen initiative and avoid long, inconvenient physical queues.
To ease tax assessment and collection and to take services closer to the people, the agency maintains six service regions as listed below:[1][5] The current Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Kenya Revenue Authority is Hon.
[6] The KRA owns a football club called Ushuru F.C.,[7] which competes in the Kenyan Premier League.
The School is one of the only four World Customs Organization (WCO) accredited Regional Training Centres (RTCs) in Africa.