Debt repayments and pensions eat up half of revenues

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The National Treasury building in Nairobi. 

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Spending on public debt repayments and pensions has for the first time gobbled up half of Kenya's domestic revenues in the year to June 2026, underlining the burden of loans and taking care of retired civil servants.

Spending from the Consolidated Fund Services (CFS)—the account for paying debt and pensions—accounted for 51.8 percent of taxes in the fiscal year to June, up from 49.8 percent a year earlier.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.