Meru County Revenue Board has launched a Countywide inspections exercise to establish the businesses that have complied with the license payment law.

The law requires business people to pay their licenses before 31st of march every year failure to which a penalty is added.

Addressing the media in his office after launching the exercise, Meru County Revenue Board, manager Mr. John Ntonti said that the revenue coordinators and other revenue officials in all sub counties will visit all the markets and shopping centers across the County to monitor the exercise.

"Business people should display the original copy of the license in a visible place where our officers can easily see it, lacks to display attract a penalty of ksh 2000," Mr. Ntointi noted.

The General manager added that the revenue officers have a mechanism to detect fake licenses and urged the residents to careful and use the the correct procedure to get the license.

"we will visit all the business premises across the county, I therefore urge those who have not yet acquired their license not to worry as our officer have the machines and will register even at the working place, I also urge the business owners not to run away when they see our officer since they are coming there in good faith," he said.

"We have harmonized all the license payment in all towns and markets across the County, all the zones are equal and they are now paying equally this year, Maua and Meru town are categorized as municipalities hence attracting higher fee", Ntoiti added.

Mr. Ntoiti further lauded his officer for the good work that they are doing saying that so far they have collected over ksh 447 million and said that they will hit their target of ksh 600 million by June.