Three-quarters of firms fail to pay corporate tax

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner General Humphrey Wattanga Mulongo during the interview at his office in Nairobi on August 25, 2025. 

Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group

Three-quarters of companies registered for corporate income tax (CIT) did not pay taxes on earnings in the year to June, pointing to deepening losses and tax avoidance.

Fresh data from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) shows that 156,232 out of 618,201 firms on the corporate tax register paid up their fair share to the taxman, reflecting a compliance rate of 25.2 percent.

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