Murang’a County Government has managed to collect a billion shillings in its own source revenue in the year ending on June 30. In the year 2021/2022 the government had collected Sh520.3 million which was increased to Sh658.17 in 2022/2023 as a report on January 26,
Governor Irungu Kang’ata lauded the finance and revenue collection department for achieving the one-billion-shilling mark in the financial year 2023/2024. He congratulates the Finance CEC Prof Kiarie Mwaura, and the revenue collection teams in the nine sub counties for achieving the target set.
The County government, he said, congratulates sub-county revenue officers including market and parking attendants for the effort they have demonstrated in the collection of the local revenue.
” Today, revenue collected from the County has hit Sh1 billion for the financial year 2023/2024. Within one year, the County has doubled its collection. This has been achieved without adding any extra taxes. County taxes were increased last in 2018,” said Kang’ata.
Speaking in Kihumbu ini market on Wednesday, in company of Deputy Speaker Moses Gachui, Kang’ata said digitalisation of payments systems have assisted the county government in enhancing revenue collection and utilisation of the resources.
He explains that the county government utilises the revenue collected to facilitate Smart City Programme, Kang’ata Care with more than 40,000 households, and the ambitious Inua Mkulima. Other projects are in the ambitious community Projects, provide bursaries to learners in secondary schools, and provide Uji programme to 42,000 pupils in the over 700 Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE).
” The county government was also employing health care workers in the cadre of nurses, clinical officers, interns and other projects, explains the Governor.
Early in May, Kang’ata disclosed that he projects the county government will achieve the target to collect a billion shillings in own source revenue up from Sh500 million registered in 2022.
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