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    "id": 1512845,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Our pensioners will get better rebate for pension payments, and therefore, reduce the burden of taking care of the elderly people. People can now contribute to their post-medical insurance, and therefore, it means you can take care of your medical insurance when you are working, and that will be an allowable expense. Data and airtime will continue to be affordable. For our businesses, the cost of tax administration, the proviso that had been made requiring payment of Withholding Tax within five working days, would mean some institutions had to have accountants there all the time, calculating when the five working days have ended, but this honourable House has passed to remove that tax. I know we had a very heated argument which is very heavy about our local manufacturing, but let me inform this House that in the Finance Act of 2023, this honourable House introduced Excise Duty on imported furniture. Of course, there was a lot of resistance because they are saying it will increase the cost of furniture. But what you see is that even companies that were selling imported furniture have resorted to assembling that furniture here, and, therefore, creating jobs for our people, just like the Murage Modern Furniture. If you go along Ngong Road, Thika Road or Mombasa Road, you will see a lot of furniture businesses."
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