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    "id": 846700,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/846700/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 227,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "On increasing Excise Duty on mobile money transfer from 10 per cent to 12 per cent, again, we must decide on that as a country. I know we want to raise Kshs1.56 billion out of this but, we must ask ourselves: when we continue taxing Kenyans who transfer money through mobile phones, are these really rich Kenyans? Nowadays, the majority of people who use mobile money transfer are actually very poor Kenyans. So, let us not discourage, through excessive taxation, transfer of money among Kenyans. Instead, we should encourage it so that the volume is higher and we net more tax through volume rather than by overtaxing individual transfers."
}