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    "id": 1252873,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": "salaries home because we have taken mortgages. When we increase PAYE to 35 per cent yet we had entered into arrangements that we cannot renege on, where will we get this money from? You know the terms of a mortgage. Where will we get the additional 5 per cent to pay for our mortgages? I do not know about other Members, but newspapers have written reports confirming that I earn zero because of my mortgage. It is a contract that you cannot rewrite after you enter into it. Will we think of situations such as those fake stamp contracts without an annual increment? What measures are we talking about? Hon. Speaker, the issue of VAT on fuel has been spoken to, but the fact of the matter is that this will affect everybody. Across the world, finance bills are negotiated. In the last Parliament, I remember the Jubilee regime wanted to increase VAT to 16 per cent. Due to negotiations and after weighing the situation ofnthe economy, we settled on VAT at 8 per cent. Because this will affect many other economic issues, I request that we leave it where it is."
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