Employers risk having their bank accounts frozen, assets seized, and tax PINs deactivated for failing to remit pension contributions under a law change aimed at enforcing the remittances and easing old-age poverty.
The Kenya Revenue Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2026, will allow the tax authority to collect unremitted pension from employers in a fresh attempt to reduce the mounting stock of retirement benefits deducted from workers’ payslips and not remitted to schemes for investment.
