Members of Parliament dropped income taxes on their mileage claims, making it the icing on the cake on a list of sweeteners dangled by the government to have them endorse some of the painful taxes in the House.
The Treasury also handed MPs Sh1.5 billion, hived off from the first supplementary budget for the 2022/2023 fiscal year, as a seed fund for putting up 100 houses per constituency, even as opposition to the controversial Housing Fund that has since been converted into a tax raged.
