Senator Karen Nyamu has triggered kenyans in her latest controversial statements about Taxes. Speaking during an interview in NTV on Monday, Karen stated that the majority of Kenyans who are crying foul about high taxation aren’t subjected to tax because they are not in any kind of payroll or salary.
“Those making the loudest noise about taxes do not even have an income or salary. I don’t know if you know that. Those who do not have a salary do not get taxed anything. They only hear that taxes are being paid and make noise about it. “
She continued:
“I see a lot of people complaining on social media. But those people are not even salaried; they are just on a noise-making bandwagon. Taxes are good. Kenya cannot grow and develop without taxes.”
Karen Nyamu who, on recent months has been a queen of controversy out of senate went ahead to explain the Kenya Kwanza’s Bottom Up economic model. She claimed that the model was designed to burden the high income earners with taxation and should be the ones complaining.
“Bottom-up means that those with the biggest salary are the ones who are supposed to be complaining because we have seriously been hit by taxes”
She claimed that taxes have been reduced on Jua Kali sector and the burden is taking a shift to those individuals earning higher.
She also said that corruption is the biggest hindrance to development as the taxes collected end up in pockets of few individuals.
She also said that the government is always striving to work with producers of various goods and commodities to keep the prices relatively low saying the producers are the once who feel the heat incase of a price hike which has not settled well with kenyans.
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