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    "id": 1511377,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1511377/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "The tax relief for salaried Kenyans is important. Sometimes, people go to work but they are unhappy. That is why we find ourselves in crisis because civil servants feel they are working for a Government that does not appreciate them. This will bring back the motisha to wake up and go to work. There was an increase in the railway development levy. I believe this means commodities like fuel and food will go up. This will result in another public outcry. Once again, I thank Kenyans for giving their views. Our citizens will enjoy the tax exemption on pension. It is going to help us to take care of the many Kenyans who are in dire need of healthcare and are struggling in their contribution. If you read the untaxed benefits on an employer on the meals, it removes the threshold from 48,000 to 60,000 but it is left hanging. I want the Committee to explain to Kenyans if the capping is per year or per month so that they are aware. The Bill also gives a good proposal on gratuity. There are Members of Parliament who came in and left and now they are back or you have come in twice and now you have left. There is something we have to do so that you come back into the pension. When we were doing our orientation, we were explained to... I am hoping many of us will borrow from that and be back on pension so that you do not ask yourself why you have been in and out of Parliament but do not have a pension. Many businesses moved out of the country. That is where we have to support the Committee. At that time, they felt that the taxes had gone so high so they left us with satellite offices that they deal with in the country. They are still making very good money as much as they have moved their offices somewhere else. This amendment also brings it back so that Government does not lose that tax again. Those who moved offices, we wish you can come back so that you can now employ other Kenyans rather than going online and doing everything online, making serious money but do not want to remit your tax. In all these, we have to tell ourselves as a House, we have done our best, Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Mbadi, has done his best and Kenyans have understood. We have gone through this process and we are hoping we will end the process with the amendments, the way we have"
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