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Prime Minister Raila Odinga shows leadership by paying tax arrears.
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McReggae
#81 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:11:18 AM
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In all these nobody seems to putting the blame rightly where it is: KRA and PSC......we hate our MPs so much that we want to crucify them yet their taxes are supposed to be deducted at source, from their employer!!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Obi 1 Kanobi
#82 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:12:38 AM
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@Mukiha You are certainly entitled to your opinion which I most respect, however, to reduce RAO's decision to pay taxes to that of a tax dodger who finally decides to pay is pedantic. Remember this MP's have been living off our spweat for 50 years and that one of the principals choosing to pay will whip the rest in line. What should now happen is for the rest of the MP's to follow suit. On another note, RAO gave 3 cheques to clear 3.9M, I wonder how they are going to clear be it that the amounts are over 1m, unless he banks in the same bank as KRA
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
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Insurgent
#83 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:19:03 AM
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Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:
@Mukiha, It is so unlike you write such "glass half empty" rhetoric. What exactly is your problem here, is it the cheques that RAO brought or the media coverage. The only reason RAO appeared on TV paying taxes was because it is news and not because he called them, the reason why it made news was probably for its symbolic value.
If the Prime Pig is serious, it should first return the around 15 acres in Malindi to the landless. He knows the land was set aside by the government to settle squatters, but given half a chance, he and his wife bought the same from former mayor of Malindi. Kwani shamba iliisha Naivasha ama Narok etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teWWtmLcoOY Is that not a press conference he called to tell the world that he had paid taxes. Ai, hata kama nikumtetea, that is his podium. At times tower, are there journalists who camp there or how fast did they learn about Amolo's going to the counter and they appeared like superman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fuo0jGW18yg
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." Rev Canon Karanja.
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TAZ
#84 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 11:21:28 AM
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@ Obi....Surely someone in the office of the PM must have informed the media that the RAO would be heading to KRA to pay his taxes otherwise we wouldn't have seen him walking from his offices to Times tower (ati kama mwanachi wa kawaida) and pretending that pia yeye anaweza queue.....the guy even had a press conference after that to blame KRA for the unclaimed tax issue. Sometime back last year Kenyans demanded for Mps to pay their taxes but no one (apart from Muthama and PK) felt philanthropic enough to do so, now that the consitution demands of them to pay ndio wana anza kujifanya ati pesa si shida....BK!
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Obi 1 Kanobi
#85 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:04:18 PM
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@Insurgent/Taz You are disappointed that RAO (someone you have never spoken well off in this forum) decided to pay his taxes, so now you are shifting the goal posts and arguing that it means nothing. Out of interest, would you rather the other 218 mpigs don't pay their taxes because they did not start paying when PK and Muthama started paying?
"The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline." James Collins
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Insurgent
#86 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:15:30 PM
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Obi 1 Kanobi wrote:
@Insurgent/Taz You are disappointed that RAO (someone you have never spoken well off in this forum) decided to pay his taxes, so now you are shifting the goal posts and arguing that it means nothing. Out of interest, would you rather the other 218 mpigs don't pay their taxes because they did not start paying when PK and Muthama started paying?
Come to think of it,their taxes wont make a difference in the one year. Those who have been paying for the last five yrs are the mature leaders. 700,000 is peanuts for an economy with a budget of 1.2 trillion.
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." Rev Canon Karanja.
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Magigi
#87 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:54:27 PM
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...The loser has paid. Did he have to follow footsteps!!!
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mwenza
#88 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:06:33 PM
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Magigi wrote:
...The loser has paid. Did he have to follow footsteps!!!
Thought he has just said that he is willing to pay only that nobody has told him how much he owes besides he doesn't keep money under his pillow. ABK!!
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nostoppingthis
#89 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:13:25 PM
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RAO: Hii si mambo ya yes/yes/no/yes...lipa ushuru, halafu EMK afuatilie
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McReggae
#90 Posted : Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:46:41 PM
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On a light note: Honourable Kalonzo Musyoka will embark on a shuttle diplomacy campaign around Africa for support in opposing the taxation of MPs.
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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