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    "id": 1257352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Chair, for this House to make informed decision especially on this matter of Income Tax bands, we need to be very clear on what we are doing. Hon. Members, the Chair of the Committee is proposing that the first Ksh24,000 per month should be taxed at 10 per cent. Let us not go with the annual figures which is the way it is even today. The next Ksh8,333 should be taxed at 25 per cent as it is today. The changes come from the 30 per cent bracket. All the amounts above Ksh32,333 right is now taxed at 30 per cent whether you are earning Ksh10 million. What we are being told is that the next Ksh467,666 per month should be taxed at 30 per cent. If you add those three figures, they come to Ksh500,000. The next Ksh300,000 should be taxed at 32.5 per cent meaning up to Ksh800,000. Anything beyond Ksh800,000 will be taxed at 35 per cent. That is the proposal by the Chair. Other colleagues are proposing better rates. Therefore, we better decide whether we are going with these better rates. For instance, the one for Hon. Kaluma will only allow taxation of 35 per cent for the ones earning over Ksh1.2 million per month. I was saying that because she said we can dissipate all these Amendments together. We are on the same Amendments. Leader of Majority Party, you look too tired today. What is happening? I think we need to allow the Leader of Majority Party to go and have something."
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