All parliamentary appearances
Entries 6231 to 6240 of 17810.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
I am telling the Chair that he needs to withdraw these amendments. I am opposing. I want him to withdraw.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, after we defeated the Chair’s amendment, then we put the one in the Bill to vote.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
For us to make progress, the Chair needs to tell us what he is deleting as part of the explanation. Then we can move on.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, let us understand this amendment. Once the House has understood, then we can vote on it. These four key projects of the Jubilee Government, particularly the housing project, the greater part of it is being done by the private sector. We do not want to have a bureaucratic bottleneck from what the Chair is talking about. Even the valuers the Chair is talking about are Kenyans. The law is clear on who they are. They must be registered by the Chief Valuer in the Government. So, I want the Chair of the Committee on Finance and ...
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
only 44 valuers. We must provide in law that the Chief Government Valuer must have overriding powers.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
The Bill belongs to the National Treasury. I am the one who brought it. The Bill is deleting all those zero-rated items. Once we agree with that, it goes back to exempt and it will make it very expensive for the people. The cost will go to packaging and many things. So, we need to move. Put the Question.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to bring to the attention of the House what this Bill from the National Treasury is doing. Those of us who were in the 11thParliament know that it is the President who returned a memo for 35 per cent. I want the House to listen to me. I am ready to table the letter from the National Treasury because they had to make a commitment that they support what is in this Bill. The letter is about the justification for the introduction of the withholding tax on winning. The current taxation is on net ...
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Taking the above into consideration, and I want the Chairman who met the stakeholders to also convince the House that the 35 per cent is not being reduced. He is proposing to tax the next betting income for operations at 15 per cent and the winnings at 20 per cent. Let me also tell Members that we are at the tail-end of this Bill. We have already passed that the winners will pay 20 per cent and the betting company 15 per cent because they pay corporate tax, VAT and other taxes. Right now, what this Chairman is trying to ...
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
We are not talking about betting. My religion does not allow me. We are dealing with taxation. We know this thing is bad. We need to discourage it.
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