Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I do support it. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 30 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. This amendment is only dealing with that addition. You remember there was an increase of Ksh150,000 per unit in terms of VAT. This is now being adjusted to 20 per cent. Adjusting the VAT to 20 per cent for a 51- seat bus worth Kshs6 million will raise the price of that bus to Kshs9 million. It will be so expensive for schools to buy buses. Even with the passage of this amendment, if a school buys a bus it will paying VAT as usual. The amendment seeks to exempt school buses from this ... view
• 30 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let me make a further amendment to read as follows: - “excluding public school buses.” view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. At the outset, I support this Bill. It is encouraging fairness and transparency in the recruitment of vice-chancellors and their deputies. That is so important so that we have the best people running our universities. University education is so important to all of us. Kenyans are so keen to ensure that their kids gets access to education and that is why we need a refined law to ensure that whatever goes on in the universities is well managed. Having the recruitment of vice-chancellors and ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support the Finance Bill. I believe it is timely and good especially because it touches on key issues concerning members of the public. On Income Tax, we want to adjust the tax relief so that our people can benefit from it. We are adjusting marginally to those earning around Kshs13,400 to get tax exemption. I wish we could adjust this to at least Kshs20,000, so that low income earners can benefit. The level of poverty in this country is increasing and many people are becoming poorer and poorer ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: President will listen more to Wanjiku and less to the banks who are exploiters and who make abnormal profits of Kshs20 billion while the economy is struggling. I am not happy about some provisions of the Bill. It does not talk about the Presidential directive on taxes in the tea sub-sector. I was happy when the President said that all taxes in the tea sector will be removed. He wants to encourage the tea sub-sector as it is one of the major sources of foreign exchange earnings. We need to invest in it and reduce taxation. During the Committee of ... view
• 18 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: its place we have tax exemptions, so that the issue of tax refunds does not arise. People sit in offices and cook up figures and then claim refunds from the Government. How can you ask Wanjiku of this country to pay taxes and then you refund the billionaires of this world through tax refunds? That is surely unfair. I welcome the idea of reducing residential houses income tax from 12 per cent to 10 per cent. I believe this will be a good incentive for people to invest in residential houses. Our people need good houses. Reducing the tax from ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will be very brief because I am not a historian, and I do not have a lot of history to go into. If it was mathematics, I would have delved into it. I support this Bill and commend Hon. Muthomi for coming up with it. Jomo Kenyatta is not just an ordinary Kenyan, but a great Kenyan. He was the founder of this nation. Without him, we would not have a country to celebrate as we do. He laid a strong foundation of nationalism in this country and brought up a society which ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Kenya relies on tourism as a means of generating income. It is important to vary it so that we do not simply rely on wildlife, the coastline, beaches and forests. We also need to venture into other sites like museums. This mausoleum will certainly be a tourist attraction site. I am a teacher by profession. My other colleagues in the teaching profession who teach history would love to have this mausoleum open to the public so that they can bring kids to visit and learn more about this country and the founding fathers of this nation. This Bill needs to ... view
• 10 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Bill. I was nearly losing hope having been here since morning. view