Kisumu governor has called both the Executive and Parliament sit down and exhaustively discuss the taxation issue.
Nyong’o said the high taxes is ruining the lives of Kenyans.
“I was very surprised when I heard the Government announcing new plans to raise money to pay the foreign debt by increasing taxes that will affect ordinary Kenyans, workers, businesses, consumers, and even the youth who get married,” Said nyong’o in a statement.
Further, governor Nyong’o said that the avalanche of taxation was not to be used for investment and wealth creation but for debt repayment.
“How, then, are we going to create wealth, employ our people, and then tax them at the same rate as before because they will now have money in their pockets?,” Nyong’o asked.
The Kisumu governor narrated how they came to power in 2002 as the NARC government, they decided that their economic growth strategy would be based on “wealth and employment creation.
“We decided that our policy regarding taxation was to be very simple, reduce the tax rate and broaden the tax base,” Nyong’o observed.
“We didn’t need to borrow any money to finance our first budget, which was much bigger than the one the previous year in Moi’s government,” Nyong’o added.
Additionally, he said that they had inherited empty coffers but they didn’t cry about it, they worked and according to nyong’o, in just two years their Government had hit one trillion mark, more than they had inherited from the previous regime.
He urged the Kenya kwanza to reduce the tax rate broaden the tax base, and stop scapegoating any section of society.
