ITIMS, ITMIS or eTIMS: which KRA system do you mean?

The confusion is easy to explain. eTIMS is an abbreviation of four words, and the middle two — Tax Invoice — are the ones that get transposed, so e-TIMS becomes ITMIS or ITIMS in a hurry. Searching either spelling generally leads to eTIMS material, which is usually what the person wanted.

It also helps to know that KRA runs more than one system, and they do different jobs. iTax is where returns are filed and where your PIN profile lives. eTIMS is where invoices are issued and reported. They are connected — eTIMS onboarding is tied to your iTax profile — but they are not the same system, and a name you half-remember could belong to either.

Whichever you are after, reach it through KRA’s own website rather than a link from an SMS or email: lookalike tax pages are a known way of harvesting PINs and passwords. If your business runs on an eTIMS-ready point of sale such as Veira, you issue compliant invoices from the app and do not sign in to a KRA portal for each sale.