1. Safaricom Limited
2. East African Breweries Limited
3. Teachers Service Commission
4. British American Tobacco (BAT)
5. Kenya Commercial Bank
6. Barclays Bank of Kenya
7. Kenya Ports Authority
8. Equity Bank Limited
9. Standard Chartered Bank
10. KenGen

The companies above accounted for KES 115 billion of the total tax remitted, which represents 17% of total revenue collected in the financial year 2011/2012. KRA’s collections rose 71.4% to KES 707.3 billion in the financial year 2011/2012 from KES 200 billion 2003.

The total revenue estimates for financial year 2012/13 stands at KES 956.9 billion. This includes KES 870.5 billion of ordinary revenue, KES 84.8 billion of appropriations-in-aid and KES 1.3 billion in respect of LATF adjustment.

In the Financial Year 2011/2012, the revenue target was KES 717 billion consisting of KES 681.5 billion of Exchequer revenue and KES 35.5 billion of agency revenue. This represented a growth of 13% over the KES 634.9 billion realise in 2010/2011. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) aims at gathering a minimum of KES 1.2 trillion per annum by 2015; a 41.06% increment on the  KES 707.3 billion in revenue collected in the financial year June 2011 to June 2012.

[READ: KRA: The Trillion Shilling Taxman]