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"content": " In conclusion, Hon. Speaker, part of the benefits were the tax waivers that Kenyans enjoy today. Kenyans were denied the waivers last June through the Finance Bill, 2024. They had to wait until 27th December 2024 for the tax laws to become effective for them to enjoy the waivers. I support what Hon. Junet has said and implore on Kenyans to fact-check. When Bills are published, please, make a point of visiting the parliamentary website. At the back of every Bill, there are objects of the Bill. If you not understand what is in the Bill, just go to the last page and read the objects and you will see what is intended to be changed by that particular legislative proposal. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Hon. Kimani. I will not open debate on this. You are the Chairman of the Committee. I speak from the authority of the Chair. I have not approved any Finance Bill to be brought to this House. Neither have I approved any request for taxation measures to be brought to this House for debate and approval or rejection. Hon. Kimani. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I thank the Leader of the Minority Party for raising this matter on the Floor of the House. The incident he is speaking about happened in a show on NTV called Fixing the Nation . I congratulate Nation Media Group for that particular discussion. What the show was trying to do was to inform Kenyans about the budget-making process. We start from the Budget Outlook Paper, to the Budget Policy Statement, to the Estimates and to the Finance Bill. My role was civic education to the country, if you followed the entire conversation. It was a whole two-hour discussion. It was a very engaging discussion on how Kenyans need to communicate when those matters come up. The biggest challenge we have in this country, unfortunately, is that even the most educated people that you may think would read and verify statements, do not. Unfortunately, we are reduced to very short clips. That is why TikTok is now the most popular social media platform. The clips are only one, two or three-seconds long. Therefore, the misinformation may come in. Let me inform this House that #RejectFinanceBill2025 has been trending on X for the last three days. It is trending between No.3 and No.8. I wondered: Am I not the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning? I would have seen the Finance Bill that people are talking about. There is all manner of misinformation, including the assertion that there is a tax for new-born children called taifa something. When you follow the comments of some of those people and go through their accounts, you would think they are distinguished scholars. Yet, they are the ones who are spreading the propaganda. I will be the last person to be on defensive on such proposals before they are brought to the Floor of the House. When the proposal is brought, my Committee will influence the final decision on it. Therefore, I am very careful in my communication. It is unfortunate. Some of us have paid the ultimate price of misinformation. I lived away from home for a long time because of fear of attack from members of the public. I lost personal property. Therefore, that misinformation should stop. I do not know what we need to do to avoid misinformation. Unfortunately, people knowingly misinform members of the public on this particular matter. Right now, we are in a broad-based government arrangement and we agree on many things. We do not know how it will be before we go to the next general elections. Even when we are in different political orientations, let us not misinform the public just for political benefits. When we were considering the Finance Bill, 2024, the Minority side said - “reject, do not amend” - even when they knew for sure that some proposals were good. We would debate on media stations and during the break, I would ask the person I was debating with why they were saying things that are not true. They would tell me it was politics. Let us not play politics with misinformation. It can be very dear and hurtful. It can lead to serious destruction that can almost be irredeemable. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Thank you. I repeat: There are no tax proposals before this House. There is no Finance Bill before the Speaker for approval or before this House. Any misinformation, disinformation or propaganda should desist forthwith. We are raising unhelpful tensions for nothing. Let us leave the matter there. Clerk-at-the-Table, call out Order No.8 so that we can put the question before we go to Questions and Statements. Whip of the Majority Party, check if the Cabinet Secretary listed to answer Questions is in the House. You can cause him to come to the Chamber."
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"content": "BILLS"
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"content": "THE EXCISE DUTY (AMENDMENT) BILL The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "(National Assembly Bill NO. 7 OF 2025)"
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"content": "(Moved by Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah on 9.4.2025 – Morning Sitting)"
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