27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if I am not wrong, I think I must have really also discovered that there are some typos. I want to move that under sub-section 2, a person who has been allocated a House under the affordable housing scheme…
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, under sub- sections 1(b), it should read: “has applied and is awaiting the allocation of a house under an affordable housing scheme.” There is the word “under.”
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
(Kipkelion East, JP)
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Well guided.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, while I appreciate the comments from the Members, we had a serious stakeholders’ meeting. Even before those other players came into the market, Charity Sweepstakes had existed since time immemorial. They sell their tickets at Kshs10, Kshs20 or Kshs50. Charity Sweepstakes proposed - and listen very carefully - that we put a threshold on taxing winnings, namely, you do not tax anything below Kshs10,000. Anything above Kshs10,000 is taxed and complies with everything. If you tax Kshs50 or Kshs100, what will happen is…
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am actually giving justification that our Committee, after hearing all the stakeholders, the explanation from them on why they required that we do not tax anything below Kshs10,000…
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Just accept my explanation. The reason why there is an exemption for PIN is because when you tax winnings of Kshs10,000 and other small amounts, implementation becomes futile. If somebody wins Kshs50 and does not have a PIN certificate and withholding tax, there will a penalty of Kshs1000 for every failure. The Charity Sweepstake appeared before the Committee and said that if we require that everybody gives PIN certificate and withholding tax, these small timers will fail to do it because it is expensive to go to a cybercafé to process one. We had to choose not tax people who ...
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
I am persuaded to withdraw the amendment but I just want to state very clearly that some of the laws should not provide an environment where it will be futile to implement. If we want to tax the winnings, we should put a threshold of Kshs10,000 or below.
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended— (d) in the provisions relating to Part I of the First Schedule by– (i) deleting the proposed new paragraph 56 and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— “56. Compensating tax accruing to a power producer under a power purchase agreement”;
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27 Jun 2018 in National Assembly:
(ii) deleting the proposed new paragraph 57;
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