Nairobi, Jan. 25 -- The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)'s recent move to lock electronic tax invoices to specific geographic coordinates has pushed georeferencing into the mainstream, signalling that location data is increasingly becoming a tool of accountability in the digital economy.

The taxman has piloted the approach under eTIMS to curb fictitious invoicing by tying each invoice to a mapped point linked to a service location or seller address for easier validation.

KRA's goal is to reduce invoice fraud by making it harder to manufacture transactions at scale, especially during periods when taxpayers rush to secure compliance invoices to support expense claims.

Georeferencing broadly refers to attaching a reliable location tag to a d...