About 41 percent of Kenyans targeted by the taxman have filed returns ahead of the June 30 deadline, data from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) says.
Latest KRA shows that more than 2.87 million taxpayers had filed returns by June 7 against a target of 7.1 million taxpayers.
This is less compared with 3.07million people who filed within a similar time last year. KRA says it has been processing more than 200,000 filings daily.
The taxman estimates that daily filing will increase as the deadline nears. It has also extended working hours at the physical and online filling points ahead of the June 30 deadline.
The taxman extended its working hours at Service centres to weekends and 6:30 pm on weekdays starting June 2 to June 30 to help taxpayers beat the last-minute deadline.
The centres, which normally operate between 8 am and 5 pm, are now working from 7 am to 6:30 pm to serve workers who were locked out by the initial eight-hour shift.