Practical guides on invoicing, eTIMS, M-Pesa reconciliation, payroll, and tax — written for SMEs, not corporations. New posts most weeks.
KRA stopped accepting paper for VAT claims. Here's the exact set of fields a 2026 tax invoice needs, why the eTIMS QR code matters, and how to close the loop between invoice, payment, and your records.
Invoicing & eTIMS
eTIMS turned your invoice into an electronic record that lives with KRA. A plain-English walkthrough of who it affects, how issuance works, and the mistakes that cost SMEs money.
Payments
Till and Paybill messages arrive by the dozen while you're mid-meeting. Here's how to turn that message stream into a reconciled ledger that ties out at month-end.
Payroll & HR
The full 2026 deduction stack — PAYE bands, SHIF at 2.75%, NSSF Tier I/II, and the housing levy — with the deadlines and the order of operations that keep a payslip legal.
Taxes
When you must register, the 16% rule, monthly returns by the 20th, and why your input claims now depend on your suppliers issuing through eTIMS.
Taxes
An audit is a records review, not a mystery. The five-year rule, the invoice-to-payment trail, and the files that make an auditor finish quickly.
Getting Started
Pricing in KES is about more than multiplying a dollar figure and rounding up. A practical way to price, quote, and get paid on terms that work for a Kenyan SME.
Getting Started
The notebook in the drawer, the M-Pesa messages, the spreadsheet that never quite matches the bank — a sane way to keep books without an accounting degree.
Payroll & HR
You've decided to hire. Before the first payslip, here's the registrations, the contract, and the deductions you need to have in place — and the order to do them in.
Payments
Cash is king, but digital is the ledger. How Till, Paybill, and card payments change your cash flow, your records, and your customer's expectations.
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