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    "id": 810124,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/810124/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Othaya, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Mugambi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13463,
        "legal_name": "James Gichuki Mugambi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I stand to oppose this amendment. The betting, lotteries and gaming tax is a sin tax. So we cannot be seen to reduce sin tax because we are all aware what gaming is doing to our children. It is one business we should start to discourage. It is not business because our young people cannot feed chicken with layers mash and wait for an egg to come out, because they are used to quick money through betting. They think that is the way to get rich. That is why the National Treasury had the idea of increasing that tax to 35 per cent. You know that every other genuine business in this country is taxed at 30 per cent. Corporations are paying tax at 30 per cent. Our genuine workers earning little money are paying tax at 30 per cent. Why would you want to give an incentive of 15 per cent to people doing business and do not employ enough people? We know what this kind of business is doing to our children. Our administrators down there are all over trying to fight this kind of business. We should, therefore, support them by agreeing that it is illegal and it should be taxed at 35 per cent. I oppose."
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