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Tax revenue slumps to 5-year low amid Covid-19 measures

Tax collections slumped to a five-year low last month, as the negative effects of Covid-19 continued to hit government coffers.

Taxpayers gave the government Sh90 billion, a drop of slightly over a third compared to Sh134 billion that the taxman collected in May 2019, new data from National Treasury published in the Kenya Gazette shows.

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