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    "id": 845973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I heard the Chairperson trying very hard to justify this. He claims that betting and gaming companies have failed to support sports. It would have been prudent for this amendment to provide that instead of 35 per cent, it comes down to 15 per cent and thereafter 20 per cent is set aside specifically for those sporting institutions. That never happened. He has even gone ahead and he is even telling us that… The Committee has failed to say that there could be a possibility of gaining more taxes by actually reducing. Natural laws of collection of taxes do not work like that. What the Committee should have done - and I am only guiding my fellow Chairperson - is giving us an analysis and telling us that prior to this being at 35 per cent, when it was at 15 per cent, this is the amount of money that Kenyans benefited from betting and gaming. They should tell us what is now being collected from the tax payer at 35 per cent. Just coming up with words without any factual figures is nothing else but misleading. I wish to remind this very honourable House that when we put these figures at 35 per cent, some Members had even suggested that betting should be taxed as high as 60 per cent. One of the major reasons was because our people were going astray. They were being misled and were losing out. Families are being destroyed and these companies are coming out to say that they are only doing business. That business is nothing else but taking away the true livelihoods of Kenyans by calling themselves legitimate companies."
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