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    "id": 467161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "However, just contributing to the VAT Act, I am persuaded that this House passed the law in good motion and passed the law following the procedures. If you look at our country now, taxation is a must. We really have got to pay taxes. It will be wrong for this House to go and tell Kenyans that you can live in a country where you need roads and services but you do not pay taxes. Paying tax is a good thing. Paying tax is a duty of all citizens. The citizens were cushioned. I remember in this same House we exempted items like sanitary towels, maize flour and maize seeds that are imported from my part of the region. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we talk today, I would prefer that this House considers a capital gains tax. We deepen taxation in our country. If you look at the mortgages that the Members of Parliament are getting now, only the buyer pays 4 per cent Stamp Duty. The seller pays absolutely nothing to the State and the seller does not pay anything that generates money for this country. Those are the kind of taxes that I think we should discuss. The other tax, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that we should also discuss is the Estate Tax – the tax that should be paid on inheritance. Inheritance is even easier. All you need to do is to close your eyes. Your parents die and then you become rich and you pay nothing to the State. Those are the matters that we should be discussing – increase taxation, deepen taxation, have more money to cushion the poor in our society but not go back to the VAT Act. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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