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Beyond taxes, Kenya needs a productive private sector

Kenya’s economy is a story of potential restrained by structural inefficiency.

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by CALEB MWAMISI

News16 November 2025 - 04:56
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Members of the public are served at the KRA Times Tower offices in Nairobi on January 26, 2022 /ENOS TECHE

EVERY financial year in Kenya begins with the same ritualistic conversation about new taxes, widened nets, and the government’s unending quest to raise revenue.

Yet beneath these recurring debates lies a more profound truth: taxation is not Kenya’s problem, productivity is. The State cannot perpetually draw from an economy that produces too little.

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