How do You Apply for a KRA PIN in a Cyber Café?

Well, to apply for a KRA PIN in a Kenyan cyber café, just follow these 4 simple steps:

1. Identify the specific cyber café where you will be applying for a KRA PIN at. Nowadays, almost every cyber café in Kenya has assistants who are knowledgeable about KRA PIN applications. But charges vary from cyber café to cyber café. So you may need to ask around, and compare rates, before settling on any particular cyber café.
2. Having identified the specific cyber café where you will be applying for a KRA PIN at, venture inside. Then ell the cyber café assistants that you want to apply for a KRA PIN.
3. After telling the cyber café assistants that you want to apply for a KRA PIN, they will probably request you to furnish them with your ID card (or at least with your ID card number). They may also ask you if you have an email address. If you do have an email address, you will need to give it to them (because one needs to have an email address to apply for a KRA PIN online). If you don’t have an email address, the cyber café assistants will create one for you, typically at a small extra cost. Some cyber café assistants may ask you to give them their money/fees at this stage. As stated earlier, charges vary from cyber café to cyber café – with some charging as little as 200 shillings for the services, and others charging as much as 500 shillings for the services and perhaps even more.
4. The cyber café assistant will then go to the KRA iTax portal, and start the process of applying for a KRA PIN. At its core, applying for a KRA PIN is just a question of filling in a simple form with some basic details about you. In most cases, the cyber café KRA PIN application should be completed within a few minutes (typically less than 15). Of course, there are times when you are told that the KRA iTax portal is ‘down’ or is ‘slow’. In such circumstances, the process of applying for a KRA PIN can take slightly longer.

On the other hand, if you are computer literate and know how to use web-based applications (like the KRA iTax application), then you can go to a cyber café, sit behind one of the computers, and apply for the KRA PIN by yourself. It is really not very hard. In this case, you would only need to pay for the minutes you spent making the application. If, for instance, you spent 40 minutes, and the cyber café you visited charges 1 shilling per minute, you would only have to pay some 40 bob.