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    "content": "I move that the amendment be dealt with as an additional amendment that we have carried as a Committee. I have a few pointers on this. I have been asked why this levy is on gross pay and not on net pay. The proposal before this was at the rate of 3 per cent. After public participation, we agreed that 3 per cent would be too high to start with. We shelved this by half to 1.5 per cent. The question was, should we have it on the basic salary or the gross salary? If it was made on the basic salary, it would defeat the whole purpose. If someone earns a salary of Ksh100,000 in the private sector and this levy was based on their basic pay, then we would use tax planning and reduce their basic pay to Ksh20,000 and the Ksh80,000 would be on The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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