Kenya's Non-Tax Revenue Increases By KSh 8.6b On Single Paybill Use

• The government directed all state agencies receiving service payments to use a single pay bill number 222222
• In the first quarter of the 2023/2024 financial year non-tax revenue increased from KSh 84.2 billion to KSh 92.8 billion
• President William Ruto hailed the implementation of the single paybill, noting that it enhanced transparency in revenue collection

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Kenya's non-tax revenue collected from state agencies increased by KSh 8.6 billion in the first quarter of the 2023/2024 financial year after the government started using a single paybill.

During the period under review, non-tax revenue, which includes fees and fines, increased from KSh 84.2 billion to KSh 92.8 billion, representing a rise of 10.3%.

Business Daily reported that the government had set a target of KSh 82.4 billion in appropriation-in-aid fees.

President William Ruto hailed the implementation of the single paybill, noting that it enhanced transparency in revenue collection.

"We are, therefore, taking strong measures to ensure that all revenue is administered transparently, efficiently, and in a secure manner. One of our best interventions is the use of digital technology and the migration of government revenue collection to a single-pay bill," Ruto said on Jamhuri Day.

Why govt shifted to single paybill

The government directed all state agencies receiving service payments to use a single pay bill number 222222.

He said that the government was facing a problem of not being able to account for all the paybill numbers used to collect government revenue.

"We have close to a thousand plus paybills all over the place, by all manner of people, some of them which we don't have sight of."

How much did govt collect after digitisation of services?

President William Ruto's administration digitised more than 5,000 services on the eCitizen platform as of June 2023.

The PS in the State Department for Citizen Services, Julius Bitok, revealed that revenue collected from the services grew to KSh 4.2 billion in September 2023.

Bitok assured that the exercise of onboarding services on the platform will continue until all government services are digitised.