Nairobi, June 23 -- Taxes paid by Kenyans on their income, profits and capital gains recorded the weakest growth in four years in the nine months to March 2026, underscoring mounting pressure on households and salaried workers that has now drawn the attention of the country's top leadership.

Latest Treasury data shows receipts from individual taxpayers rose by a modest 4.4 percent to Sh486.3 billion in the July-March period of the current 2025/26 financial year, compared with a robust 19.1 percent growth recorded in the same period a year earlier.

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected an additional Sh20.5 billion from individual taxpayers during the review period, a sharp slowdown from the Sh74.8 billion increase recorded in the p...