Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to Move - THAT the National Rating Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 55 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important piece of legislation. Amongst the many we have considered as a House, this one particularly, apart The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: from the annual Division of Revenue Bill, where we send funds after the horizontal division between the national and county governments, it seeks to add more to the pots of the counties, so that they can deliver services to the people of Kenya. The National Rating Bill was published in the Kenya Gazette Supplement No.185 of 2022 and passed by the National Assembly on 11th October, 2023. Thereafter, the Bill was referred to the Senate for consideration. The principal object of this Bill is basically to provide a legislative framework for the position of property taxes on land and buildings ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: people have since learnt that it is impossible to bully such an administration that is determined to do the right thing, though not popular at times, but the right thing in long-run. We must also begin that conversation and ensure that all the taxes being levied and paid for by our people in the county governments are accounted for. It should become impossible for people to pilfer electronically paid resources because there is a trace and the taxes are paid using a system that is accountable and from reputable firms, not just having systems that have something that is colloquially ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: Above that, it also provides a fair and equitable means of taxation, ensuring that property owners contribute to financing essential services proportionate to the value of their properties. Many strong institutions that have got the financial muscle are able to negotiate and collude with land officers in various counties to pay taxes less than what is due to them. Taxation must be fair. You must be taxed an amount that is commensurate to the value of what you are holding and the benefit that you get from a county government. If you are charging a boda boda operator or a ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: know the frequency of updating the master valuation role with our various county governments. Within what time should it be updated, so that the same can be are property owners in Kisumu who, on one file, you find the valuation for the owner, reads the value of 1990 and the next one, since they purchased it recently, they have a more recent value of 2023. Is that fair? It is not fair. This is why we are proposing to have this standardized. Clauses 26 to 36 of the Bill contain provisions on the valuation rating. This part provides the general ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: Part 5 of the Bill basically establishes the National Rating Tribunal that will hear and handle all those disputes. Part 6 of the Bill are just miscellaneous provisions and notices of repeal of CAP 266 and 267, which is a guiding law even as we speak today on these matters of rating. I do not know how old this particular law is. It must be extremely old. Finally, Clauses 56 and 57 of the Bill contain the proposed regulations and savings and transition of any written national and county laws relating to valuation. Just to preserve, if there have been ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank colleagues who have taken time to speak to this extremely important Bill. I take their comments in good order. I only take exception to the comments by Sen. Danson Manzo. He is among the senior most legislators in the House, having been in the corridors of Parliament for the past 12 years. I listened to him espouse on the benefits of the Bill and what needs to be done or changed. He then concluded by a colloquial remark that has become commonplace in this House by saying this is a bad law. Now, what I ... view
• 16 Apr 2024 in Senate: mind that certain things need to be aligned, well and good. However, listening to the comments of many people who spoke here, including the Seconder to colleagues across the aisle, they agree that there is a need to provide this legislative framework for uniformity of rates that are paid, and the process of how to go about it. The rest are details. How you want to align it to the Constitution or how you think maybe this is an overreach for one reason or the other, those are things that we could always agree or disagree on, because it is ... view
• 28 Mar 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following papers on the table of the Senate, today, Thursday, 28th March, 2024- Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements of Kiambu County Assembly Staff Loan Scheme Fund for the year ended 30th June, 2023. view
• 28 Mar 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view