John Mbadi Ng'ong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude. I do not understand how--- view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I will forgive hon. Chepkonga because he was not with us in the 10th Parliament when we were developing a relationship with hon. Mutava Musyimi; we are very close friends. He will be shocked the way we sometimes engage with him. He thinks it is discourteous, but I am very courteous to my friend, hon. Mutava Musyimi. I think the people I am not courteous to are the rich people who do not want to be taxed, and that is what hon. Chepkonga is, indirectly, saying. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, I wanted just to point out that it is not true that this amendment would destabilize the stock market. What we are trying to do is--- If today hon. Mbadi buys Safaricom shares for Kshs.10 and sells them tomorrow for Kshs.20, he will make a profit of Kshs.10, which should be taxed because it is an income. In this country, the moment you try to tax the rich, they will come up with all manner of arguments, like it is going to discourage investment or you are scaring away investors. Who are these investors? It is us. ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker, Sir. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, my points of order are two, and are based on what hon. A.B. Duale has spoken to. First of all, he should not impute improper motive on another Member. I am not playing populist politics. I want to remind hon. A.B. Duale that his own Cabinet Secretary for Finance was on the Floor here and he said that Capital Gains Tax would be reinstated. I can refer to his speech. That is what I am trying to do. I am doing what his Government has failed to do. So, referring to me as a person playing populist politics ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairlady, well, taxes can be backdated. There is something we call provision of taxes order which is usually given. However, it should be aligned to the beginning of the financial year. That is why I found February a bit curious. It is not illegal to backdate tax though. You can backdate tax if you had already projected that for 12 months, we need to vary this and that tax to this and that amount to be in a position to collect so much. Immediately Parliament gives the provision of collection of taxes order which gets formalized through the Finance ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairlady, what I meant is that when you pass the Budget Estimates, you are in effect giving a provision of collection of taxes order to the Executive. It is a provision of approval by Parliament. So, you cannot say that Parliament has not approved. Just the same way we are today legislating; we have given a provisional order for them to collect. So, they can collect up to the time the Finance Bill is approved. If the Finance Bill is not approved or that provision is not approved then the Government must refund all those taxes. That is how ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Chairlady. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Chairlady. I think if I got the Chair correctly, he has put it clearly that this is an amendment that is not on the Order Paper. I think we need to understand. I agree that Chair of Committees can bring amendments on the Floor of the House, but this is a money Bill and there is no exemption of money Bills going through the correct procedure. So, allowing even the Chair of the Committee to sneak in amendments on a Money Bill is completely out of order. These amendments which did not follow the correct procedure as ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: No, I have the Floor and the Chairlady has not told me to sit down. Hon. Chairman of the Committee, I hope you are listening. It is a coincidence that the hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman who raised this matter is presiding. I really do not know how the conflict of interest--- 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. view