When you have been in business for a few years and spot a tender advertisement on the newspaper, you decide it’s time to take a leap into big business and apply for it: you know your business has the capacity to satisfy all the tender requirements, apart from one: a Tax Compliance Certificate.

For you to get a Tax Compliance Certificate, your tax affairs with the Kenya Revenue Authority all need to be in order. This means that the company has filed all necessary tax returns, paid all taxes due and its directors are similarly tax compliant.