Finance Bill: MPs drop ‘punitive’ taxes as Kenyans protest

Kimani Kuria, the National Assembly’s Finance Committee chair, at a press briefing shortly after Kenya Kwanza’s Parliamentary Group at State House on June 18, 2024 ahead of tabling the contentious Finance Bill 2024 in Parliament in the afternoon. 

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The National Assembly’s Finance Committee has bowed to pressure from different stakeholders and dropped a number of contentious clauses in the Finance Bill, 2024, even as Kenyans took to the streets in Nairobi on Tuesday morning to protest against the proposed laws.

The committee is today afternoon expected to table its report, with recommendations, in the House. 

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