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Kenyans toiling to pay salaries, debt

Treasury Cabinet secretary Henry Rotich at a past function. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard)

Seven shillings out of every 10 collected by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) in July went into repaying Kenya’s Sh5.01 trillion debt.

According to the latest figures by the Treasury, the taxman raised Sh98 billion last month out of which Sh68 billion was spent on paying off creditors - putting the share of debt to revenue at 69 per cent.

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