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    "id": 736487,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/736487/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "That gap is growing wider. In order to reduce that disparity between low and high income earners and move towards income equality, this Bill proposes to increase the Pay-as-you-Earn (PAYE), pension tax bands and the personal relief by 10 per cent. Following the Government crackdown on illicit spirits in the year 2015, the number of manufacturers in the industry has greatly reduced, leaving a supply gap that was quickly filled by cheap imports and consequently the prices of spirits have come down making these products available to abuse by young Kenyans. In order to protect the young generation of this country, this Bill proposes to increase excise duty on alcoholic spirits from the current rate of Kshs175 per litre to Kshs200 per litre. I am not a consumer of those spirits, but I am sure the spirit, the letter and the objective of the Cabinet Secretary is to save young Kenyans who abuse those substances."
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