Taxes –The State has devised means to converge all needed deductions from civil servants into a Unified Human Resource system UHR.
The revelations were made public in the 2024 Budget Policy System BPS where integration needs to be complete by July this year 2024.
First, this system was initiated in July 2023 when it was directly linked to the Kenya Revenue Authority KRA iTax system meant to help in the filing of the PAYE tax.
“The government will incorporate the other deductions to enable all remittances to be sent to respective entities including Pension Funds and other employees’ contributions schemes by July 2024,” partly read the BPS.
Three years ago, a task force was constituted by the State Department for Public Service. This Task Force was mandated to help come up with a prototype for the UHR to replace the Government Human Resource Information System GHRIS.
Speaking then, former Public Service Principal Secretary Mary Kimonye explained that the new system would standardise Human Resource practices across the public service and help governmnet in decision-making.
The government defends that, this new platform, will continue to be rolled out in phases. Phase 1 was undertaken in September 2023 when the system was rolled out in all ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and counties.
Reports indicated that the rollout was set to weed out ghost workers on the payroll, whose salary deductions lead to financial losses. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission SRC lauded the system, stating that it would help keep track of national and county government salaries.
This will then move on to Phase 2 and 3 in that order.
