Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we agonize on which direction we are going. As the country is burdened with debt, we are now heading to a more dangerous direction. The taxation regime in the country is also a cause to worry. One, if you over-tax the population, you chock production and undermine the ethics of virtually every production sector. Today, if you start hearing that transactions in the bank are attracting heavy taxation, it means that, we are telling traders and commercial enterprise players to start keeping money at home. view
• 20 Sep 2018 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: If you take your money to the bank, it is claimed off. Therefore, people will start transacting by moving cash from their houses to whatever they want to do and this is dangerous even for our security. The moment people get to know that traders are not taking their money to the bank because it is going to be taxed, then everybody‟s security becomes an issue. Madam Temporary Speaker, equally important is the taxation that has been imposed on fuel. We have listened to many explanations but the bottom line is, you tax fuel and fuel products and you have ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: I would have loved if the President had good economic advisors because he could have easily increased this tax slowly. That is in bits of 2 per cent every year, thus minimising the shock treatment to the people. As it is, a simple example, the day it was announced that fuel was going up by 16 per cent, the Energy Regulatory Authority shot up the price of fuel by Kshs12. Shortly, thereafter, when it was announced that it will be proposed to be reduced to 8 per cent, the Energy Regulatory Commission reduced the cost of fuel by Kshs2, therefore, ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: he wants to send home Kshs100 and retain Kshs100. What will reach home is Kshs88 and not Kshs100. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: This is pain to the people of this country. We need as a House; the representatives of the people of this country and the protector of counties, to urge the Government to find a more innovative way of managing our economy and public affairs other than just imposing tax upon tax. Madam Temporary Speaker, take for example kerosene in rural areas, even where we say we have the last mile electricity connected to people‟s homes in the rural areas, even if you tell them that their bills are constant at Kshs500, they cannot pay. This is because we have families ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: It flies in the face of common sense, because the ordinary mama in the village, who is selling her eggs to buy kerosene to light her little house, has nothing to do with adulteration of diesel. She has nothing to do with whatever the Cabinet Secretary is saying. This House must record its abhorrence on this kind and level of thinking. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, telephone services in the country are no longer a luxury. Everybody everywhere is communicating. We are now making it difficult for people even to communicate, because a huge tax has been imposed on telephone services. When you talk to those responsible, they say they are widening the tax net and the tax base. We are killing enterprise. We are destroying production; we are in East African Community. Our tax regime is simply going to mean that investors, who are coming to Kenya, look at our tax regime, compare it with Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. We are in ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I always drove in one car. However today, Cabinet Secretaries have one car in front, in the middle and another one behind them; that is consumption. If you look at the levels of change that we see that cost money, when we have austerity measures – like we must have today – why would the President stand up and say that we are changing the police uniform? How much will that cost considering that we have close to 100,000 policemen in this country? Changing their uniform means spending money, which would have been put into something different. ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: issue where the Government buys its own land from itself at Kshs1.5 billion; and all that is the process of corruption. view