How to Check the Status of a PIN Using the KRA PIN Checker

It is possible to tell whether a PIN number is genuine. That is something you can do using a feature known as KRA PIN checker. The said KRA PIN checker feature is to be found on KRA’s iTax portal. Besides helping you in checking the genuineness of a KRA PIN, the KRA PIN checker can also help you in ascertaining whether a given KRA PIN number is active. This is to say, in other words, that the KRA PIN checker can help you in ascertaining the status of any given KRA PIN number.

There are three simple steps for you to follow, to check the status (or genuineness) of a KRA PIN using the KRA PIN checker feature.

First, you need to go to the KRA iTax portal. That is easy. Just enter the portal’s address (itax.kra.go.ke) into your browser, and the portal will be displayed on your browser. 

The second step is to indicate that you are specifically interested in using the KRA PIN checker feature. So on the KRA iTax homepage, you will see a section entitled ‘iTax Online Services’, and one of the first things there is the ‘PIN checker’. Below the words ‘PIN checker’ is a line that says ‘To verify PIN, click there’. Click there.

The third step is to enter the KRA PIN number in the screen you are taken to. You may also be required to enter a captcha code (which KRA refers to as ‘Security Stamp’), to prove that you are human and not a bot. Then click on the ‘Consult’ button: whereupon the KRA PIN checker will give you a report on the entered KRA number – the basic details of the KRA PIN number holder, whether the KRA PIN is genuine and what its status is like (as in, for instance, whether it is an active KRA PIN).
That process of course requires you to have access to a computer. That could be your own computer or a cyber cafe computer. Just as you can apply for a KRA PIN at a cyber cafe, so can you check the status of a KRA PIN using a cyber cafe computer.