Civil servants are staring at a cocktail of difficulties, including run-ins with the taxman and potential blocks from accessing essential government services as unremitted statutory deductions by the State double to Sh78.6 billion in the three months to September.
According to new data from the Controller of Budget (COB), pending bills by State corporations, State-owned enterprises and semi-autonomous government agencies, in the form of unremitted deductions, have grown from Sh35.8 billion in the same period a year earlier.
