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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, you will find someone in Mukuru kwa Njenga or Mukuru kwa Reuben who owns ten acres of temporary structures earning, probably, between Ksh10 million and Ksh12 million from vulnerable and poor people who, he does not offer sanitation facilities. The rates you find them paying, because the land is probably not adjudicated, is negligible. Yet a landlord who is in Kilimani on a block of flats sitting on an eighth of an acre is paying way much higher than even what they are able to collect as rental incomes and income to themselves. It creates a situation where there is no uniformity and fairness. This Bill seeks to create that uniformity and fairness in levying of property taxes by county governments. The Bill also seeks to consolidate the valuation for rating Acts, that is, Cap 266 and the Rating Act Cap 267 into one. It will now be referred to as the National Rating Act providing a comprehensive and uniform legislative framework. It will regulate how all our county governments across the country levy rates and other levies that they may be levying to house owners. The Bill also seeks to synchronise the terms and definitions in line with current definitions on valuation of ratable property current practice. These two Acts, Cap 266 and Cap 267 refer to definitions and they are things that were done back then. As with all other professions, even in the valuation profession and those of us who have studied land economics and are valuers, there are new terms and definitions in the industry and, therefore, this Bill seeks to align to that. It also seeks to identify the mechanisms on how our county governments shall undertake valuation for rating and position of rates on ratable property to reflect the powers that were intended under Article 209(3)(a), for counties to impose property taxes/rates adhering to Article 10 of the Constitution on values and principles of governance and Article 232 to conform to the principle of public finance. This Bill will also provide for the establishment of the National Rating Tribunal that will be responsible for the resolution of disputes relating to property rating. Today, if the County Government of Nairobi imposed rates on Hon. Robert Mbui, who I know owns quite a number of properties in Embakasi South…"
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