State earns Sh3bn from air travellers departure tax

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. PHOTO | JEFF ANGOTE | NMG

Departure tax earned the Tourism Promotion Fund (TPF) Sh2.9 billion from local and international passengers in the nine months to January this year.

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala said Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) remitted Sh2.17 billion ($19,962,719.44) from the international air levy charge. KAA also remitted Sh812,320,410 from the domestic air levy charge to the TPF revenue account.

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