{"id":209271,"date":"2025-10-08T19:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-collects-record-sh85-2bn-in-customs-taxes-in-september\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:50:09","slug":"kenya-kra-collects-record-sh85-2bn-in-customs-taxes-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kra-collects-record-sh85-2bn-in-customs-taxes-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KRA Collects Record Sh85.2bn in Customs Taxes in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected a record Sh85.2 billion in customs revenue in September, buoyed by higher petroleum and trade taxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The amount surpassed the previous all-time high of Sh82.6 billion recorded in January 2025 and represented a 104.7 percent performance rate against a target of Sh81.34 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Trade taxes contributed Sh51.7 billion, while petroleum levies brought in Sh33.4 billion during the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;This success is attributed to a series of reforms aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected a record Sh85.2 billion in customs revenue in September, buoyed by higher petroleum and trade taxes. The amount surpassed the previous all-time high of Sh82.6 billion recorded in January 2025 and represented a 104.7 percent performance rate against a target of Sh81.34 billion. Trade taxes contributed Sh51.7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,25489,6944,4688,430,28243,257,5267,6587,52521,254,12062],"class_list":["post-209271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collects","tag-customs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kra","tag-news","tag-record","tag-september","tag-sh85-2bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}