Nowadays, most of the people who apply for Kenya KRA PINs do so from cyber cafes. This is a departure from what was happening some years ago: where one had to endure long queues at KRA Times Towers offices, to apply and get a KRA PIN card. Nowadays, the whole thing is done online, typically through cyber cafes. There are several advantages that you stand to get, if you too opt to take that route (of applying for a KRA PIN from a cyber cafe).
Firstly, you find that applying for a KRA PIN at a cyber café
can save you a great deal of time. This is because the cyber café attendants
tend to have a lot of experience in these sorts of tasks. On the other hand, if
you were to try to apply for the KRA PIN on yourself, you would have to start
by learning how it is done, then fumbling through trial and error, until you finally figure out how and thereafter manage to apply for the KRA PIN. That is not viable if you need the KRA PIN
urgently. For instance, if you are applying for the KRA PIN with the objective
of using it in, say, bidding for a KEMSA tender then you wouldn’t have a
lot of time to fumble along with the application. At the very least, you wouldn’t
want to get stuck at the KRA PIN application stage (remember, applying for a
KRA PIN for a company is not as easy as applying for a KRA PIN for an
individual). So to save time, you opt to just give the Kenya Revenue Authority
PIN application job to the professionals who have experience in it, at a cyber café.
Secondly, you find that applying for a KRA PIN at a cyber café
can save you quite a bit of money. The alternative to applying for a KRA PIN at
a cyber café is to apply for it at KRA offices or at a Huduma Center. But if
you are in a town where there is neither a KRA office or a Huduma Center, it
would mean that you have to spend potentially a great deal of money in
traveling from wherever you are, to a town with a KRA office or a Huduma center
to apply for a KRA PIN there. That is money you can save by opting to simply
apply for the KRA PIN at a cyber café. You have to remember that even after
traveling and getting to the KRA office or Huduma center, they folks you find
there may end up still referring you to a cyber café – as they seem to prefer
having basic applications done at cyber cafes so that they can concentrate on
dealing with the complications that may arise.
Thirdly, there is the reality that applying for a KRA PIN at
a cyber café can help you avoid blunders that you would otherwise have made if
you had attempted to apply for the same on your own. You see, the folks who
help clients with KRA PIN applications in cyber cafes tend to be folks who are
highly experienced in these sorts of tasks. They therefore know the blundersthat need to be avoided in the KRA PIN application process. Leveraging on that
experience, they can help you avoid those blunders.
