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"speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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"content": "As I support the proposals, I also want to say that the Finance Bill, 2020, is basically a very fair Bill. I take special recognition especially when it comes to the National Treasury dropping the component of taxing pensioners. In this time and era, we cannot afford to tax pensioners. If we look around, we realise that most of our pensioners do not earn a lot of money. Recently, I was watching on Citizen Television a story of a very old man who was getting a net pension of about Ksh20,000 but had accumulated a lot of debts. What he takes home after his repayments is a mere Ksh3,000. For me, it is a very great honour that the Committee and the National Treasury have dropped the proposal to tax pensions. I also have a memorandum that I had been given from the community of persons with disabilities in this country to present to this House. I am happy we are discussing the dropping of the taxing of pensions before I present the petition to this House. I am happy it has gone."
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