eTIMS

eTIMS

KRA's electronic tax invoice system, through which businesses transmit invoice details and receive validated electronic tax invoices.

Also called

You will also see this written as electronic tax invoice management system, e-tims and etims kenya. Kenyan businesses use these interchangeably in conversation even where the underlying things differ, which is worth knowing when someone tells you what you need.

Where you meet this

You meet eTIMS at two points, and businesses usually only think about the first. The first is issuing: your sale produces a validated electronic tax invoice. The second is receiving: your suppliers issue you theirs, and those documents are what support your own expense claims. A business that has solved the issuing side and filed none of what it received has solved the smaller half of the problem.

What it sits alongside

In Kenyan business records etims sits alongside Kenya Revenue Authority, Tax invoice and Tax Procedures Act. The pages for each explain how they connect.

Related terms

• Kenya Revenue Authority
• Tax invoice
• Tax Procedures Act
• POS system
• KRA PIN
• TIMS

Common questions