SWEDISH TAX AGENCYKENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY 2 SWEDISH TAX AGENCYKENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY 2 FROM 2021

Since 2014 Sida has financed two contributions at the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) *Cooperation between KRA and the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket STA) working to improve corporate risk management tax compliance risk management data warehouse and change management (contribution no. 51110077 SEK 44.7 million 2014 2019) *The procurement installation and implementation of Data Warehouse Business Intelligence (DWBI) at KRA (contribution no. 51110081 SEK 35.0 million since 2014 and still on going). The support was characterized by significant delays in KRAaE™s procurement of DWBI and in the consultantaE™s installation and implementation of DWBI by a somewhat difficult relationship between KRA and STA and by the seemingly limited engagement of KRAaE™s senior management in the cooperation.The support was the subject of an independent evaluation G Moran A Jansson and J Ranguma aEœEvaluation of the Sida supported development cooperation with the Kenya Revenue AuthorityaE (Sida Decentralisedation 2019 26). The evaluators found that the support was relevant generally effective and efficient the big challenge being the slow procurement and implementation of DWBI. The Swedish support coincided with a significant increase in tax collection a huge increase in the tax base and what appears to be significant increase in tax compliance although it is unclear how much of these improvements can be attributed to the Swedish support. The evaluation recommended that Embassy consider supporting aEœaE¦a few follow up activities and missions aimed at (a) bringing senior management on board and (b) ensuring that the capacity of KRA is enhanced in the areas of business intelligence and analyticsaE (pp. xi xii).KRA requested that the support to DWBI be extended and that additional support be provided for capacity building and technical assistance for the DWBI project specifically data governance advanced analytics development and deployment change management and sensitization and the roll out of rk profiling (Annastaciah Githuba letter to Anna Jardfelt aEœRequest for Extension to the Specific Agreement for the Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence Project Funding and Capacity Building & Technical AssistanceaE (KRA 2019 09 24)). Since the request Sweden and Kenya have agreed to extend the support via the DWBI contribution.STA has submitted terms of reference for an inception period (SEK 485 000 until 2020 06 30) during which KRA and STA will develop a project proposal aE including a budget areas for cooperation an activity plan a results matrix and a risk matrix aE for a one year cooperation between KRA and STA 2020 07 01 to 2021 06 30. KRA has approved the terms of reference (Jacinta Nduku Mulwa e mail to James Donovan aEœRe FW Utkast aE ToR och Budget för Inception Phase KRA och STA cooperationaE (KRA 2020 01 27).