KRA To Set Up Forensic Lab To Nab Tax Cheats
Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will soon be armed with cyber forensic lab facilities to nab tax cheats as it hopes to build a state-of-the-art forensic lab.
The lab is expected to equip KRA to recover all deleted files, mine hidden data including hidden accounts from tax payers computers to uncover tax and financial frauds."The proposed Digital Forensic lab will be set up to perform the activities of forensic Acquisition, Extraction and e-discovery of evidential materials," says KRA.
While investigating cases of tax evasion in the country, the tax man hopes to build water tight evidence against those that it will take to the courts.
The move comes in response to the rising trend among individuals and businesses as they switch to electronic record keeping which has become probl...
