Nairobi, Feb. 9 -- Banks have started sharing information about foreign account holders with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) as the taxman steps up its purge of tax dodgers and beneficiaries of illicit wealth.

Some banks on Thursday notified their customers that they had started implementing the common reporting standards (CRS) under which countries agree to seamlessly share information on taxpayers.

The KRA is also expected to receive similar details on a resident taxpayer with an offshore account.

For individual account holders, banks will share with taxman details such as account balance, address, place of birth, date of birth, country or countries of tax residence, and ID numbers.

In the case of corporate entities, banks are als...