{
  "id": 16189694,
  "title": "Banks collect more taxes for govt than they pay themselves for first time",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/banks-collect-more-taxes-for-govt-than-they-pay-themselves-for-first",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T12:21:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/business/banks-collect-more-taxes-for-govt-than-they-pay-themselves-for-first-time"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For the first time in the history of a study tracking Kenya’s banking sector, taxes collected by banks on behalf of the government exceeded the taxes they paid directly, highlighting the industry’s growing role in revenue collection. The 33 participating banks and microfinance institutions collected Ksh107.22 billion in taxes in 2025, compared with Ksh98.36 billion […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}