KRA Commissioner General Humphrey Wattanga is staring at summonses after failing to appear before a House committee 14 times.
MPs at the National Cohesion Committee of the National Assembly said the officer had exhausted all the chances available for him to be invited before them.
The committee chaired by Mandera West MP Yusuf Adan Haji said they would not hesitate to file summons against the top KRA officer.
Haji made the directive after the commissioner general failed to appear before the committee on Tuesday to answer to MPs' concerns.
Instead, KRA dispatched the acting commissioner for corporate support services to appear before the committee which is probing recruitment at the taxman.
“It is not you [the Kra commissioner] to bring him [commissioner general] here. We have the means to do what is right. We will get to the next cause of action,” Haji said before dismissing the officer from the committee sittings at Parliament Buildings.
Should the summonses [usually an elaborate process] take effect, the KRA commissioner general risks being fined Sh500,000 for defying invitations.
House standing orders provide that witnesses be granted three chances to appear, failure to which the summonses are invoked.
The Cohesion committee is investigating recruitment at the authority amid allegations of ethnic imbalance in the recent hiring of officers at the customs department.
MPs want the taxman to shed light on who was hired and whether the appointments met the threshold set in law for ethnic balance.
KRA advertised the jobs last May through its website, but grumbles followed that the recruitment may have favoured Nairobi residents mostly.
The new officers were required to be 18-30 years of age and were to be holders of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education with a minimum of C minus.
KRA, when the question came up in Parliament through a request for accountability by Embakasi East MP Babu Owino, said they would furnish details.
