Wednesday, November 6, 2024 – Former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has claimed that President William Ruto’s government is attempting to reintroduce certain proposals from the defunct Finance Bill 2024.
Speaking at the 12th anniversary celebrations of Dini ya Roho Mafuta Pole ya Africa in Kapenguria, West Pokot County, Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka opposed the tax review proposal, stating that Kenyans are already overtaxed.
They claimed that the process
was being engineered by Treasury CS John Mbadi.
“Let us not lie to ourselves, we
have a big challenge. If President Ruto’s government will re-introduce
amendments to the Finance Act 2024 and then add taxes, it will be hard for
Kenyans,” Kalonzo stated.
His stance came as the
government, in recent days, showed plans of reintroducing proposals in the
2024/2025 Finance Bill that will be making a return in the 2025/2026 Finance
Bill.
Some of the proposals that are
set to be re-introduced are widening the tax bracket to include taxes for
digital holding companies and food delivery services.
Joined by The Democratic Action
Party-Kenya (DAP-K) party leader Eugene Wamalwa, Jubilee Secretary General
Jeremiah Kioni, and Former Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu, the opposition
lashed out at the Kenya Kwanza administration in its intent to re-introduce
sections of the 2024 finance bill.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
