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    "id": 1512446,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1512446/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, as I mentioned, the Income Tax Act, as it is, was providing for the husband to declare the income of the wife. That is what the law has been for very many years. Of course, you would expect that those many years ago the society was not as progressive as it is now. So, the tax of the wife was supposed to be declared by the husband. This honourable House, in the Finance Act of 2023, removed that provision and stipulated that everyone should report their own taxes—the husband to report his taxes and the wife to report hers. However, when passing that law, the definition was not clear. That is why this proposal is now providing clarity so that wives and husbands report each their own. For a very long time, the income tax had provided that the husband had to declare the wife’s income when they are making their declarations."
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