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    "id": 466766,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/466766/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
    },
    "content": "individual tax that Kenyans pay in this country. We need to think more seriously about other indirect taxes. If you look at the Income Tax, that is, the Pay as You Earn (PAYE), someone who earns Kshs38,892 pays tax of Kshs5,600. For the first Kshs10,164 a Kenyan pays ten per cent of it on tax. The next Kshs9,576 per month attracts 15 per cent. The next Kshs9,576 per month attracts 20 per cent. The next same amount of money attracts 25 per cent. This is not acceptable. This country is overtaxing its citizens. We need to tell Government to think of more innovative ways of raising revenue. Let me conclude by saying that I will, again, propose an amendment that any Kenyan who is earning to have only two rates of tax, that is, from Kshs1 to Kshs38,892 per month to pay zero per cent as tax. I am talking about the PAYE. Any amount above that as it is today should attract 30 per cent. The lost revenue which will be about Kshs10 billion to Kshs15 billion, let the Government be innovative and get this money from Capital Gains Tax. The Government should go to the informal sector and tax the matatus. It should bring in other taxes which do not directly impact on the welfare of Kenyans."
}