The latest filings by the National Treasury indicate that the national tax collections in the last three months ending September 30th has hit the 289.03Billion mark.
This can be translated to an increase of 12.06 per cent amounting to 31.11 billion as compared to the 257.93B collected in the past year.
According to Treasury CS Henry Rotich, non tax revenues increased by 101.11 percent to 5.54billion as compared to the 2.71billion at the same time last year.
Ordinary revenues have also risen to 294.48b as compared to the last observation of 260.63billion amounting to a 12.99% increase.
The ministry has also set a goal for the Kenya Revenue Authority for this year calling upon the taxman to aim at an amount of 1.37Trillion as compared to the 1.21T collected in the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Therefore,K.R.A will be expected to capture 160B more.
This comes at a time when the taxman is doing everything within his ability to cash in as much money in terms of cash as possible.Some of the new ways initiated by the KRA include the introduction of the online itax and collaborations with third party databases and firms associating with the share in businesses.