Business Daily | by John Mutua
The portion of tax revenues spent by counties on employee salaries and allowances has risen, new data shows, widening the breach on the legal cap on such expenditure.
Data from the Controller of Budget shows that the amount splashed on salaries and allowances as a percentage of the total revenue rose to 41.7 percent in the year to last June from 36.5 percent the previous year.
Counties are under the Public Finance Management Act, 2015 allowed to spend…
