Ichungwa of UDAku moved the motion to increase prices of beer, wines and spirits. Meanwhile Gladys Wanga of Azimio moved motion to reduce cooking gas prices. Kenyan voters can now see who their enemy is and on the other side which party cares about them.
Alcohol hiked in Finance Bill changes" https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2022-06-03-gas-price-reduced-alcohol-hiked-in-finance-bill-changes/
Very sad, these tangatangas don’t care about hustlers. Why push for price increases when people are already suffering with high prices? These tangatangas should all be sent home on Aug 2022.
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On Thursday, lawmakers aligned to Deputy President William Ruto pushed through amendments to the Finance Bill 2022 that will see amongst others an increase in prices of wines and spirits and beers.
Led by MPs Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu), Aden Duale (Garissa Township) and John Kiarie (Dagoretti South) they put a spirited fight late into the night to push some of critical amendments with far reaching consequences on the government revenue raising ability.
Spirits with an alcoholic percentage of more than six per cent will attract excise duty at Sh335.30 per litre, up from the initial Sh278.70.
For beer lovers, products whose alcohol content exceeds six per cent will attract excise duty at the rate of Sh134 per litre, up from Sh121.85, meaning retail prices are set to increase.
The radical proposals were contained in amendments pushed through by Ichung’wah.
The increases in taxes on alcohol revises earlier recommendations by the Finance and Planning Committee of the National Assembly, which had rejected a proposal by the National Treasury to increase these taxes.
The committee chaired by Homa Bay Woman Representative Gladys Wanga had noted that an increase would lead to a rise in the consumption of illicit alcohol.
The Bar Hotels Liquor Traders Association, on Thursday said increased taxes will hit the industry, which is yet recover from Covid-19 related losses, where the number of bar outlets reduced from 54,000 to 32,000 countrywide.
At least 110,000 jobs in the entertainment and hospitality sector have been lost in the process.
Itabidii elders waanze kupika pombe yao kwa nyumba. Uki import DIY beer brew making homegrown. Si KRA will kill you. You will bankrupt the broke GuOK of kenia.
wamemaua kutumaliza banaeee
I have seen some ‘whiskeys’ from India selling for below 1000 bob. Wondering how they manage to retail for that low despite being imported and what not.
Huyu Kiarie is an Idiot. I pray dago residents kick him out into to the cold.
Pombe si muhimu , should be taxed to death to relieve the tax on more important basic needs
Speak for yourself.
For the uneducated who keep wailing that youth are wasting away in drugs and alcohol, this is a very good move. Higher tax revenue, lower alcohol consumption, and thereby lower dependency on alcohol.
How will lower alcohol consumption lead to higher tax revenue?
Huyo harudi yeye ndio anaongoza lineup ya OTMP.
Pombe ni starehe, chakula ni basic need.
If the higher taxes on alcoholic beverages, " can" enable the tax on food products to come down, then I fully support it.
Which food products are these? Maize and wheat flour are already tax exempt.
You are making the same juvenile assumption folks at treasury are making; assuming a linear relationship between the tax rate and tax yield.
Mnadhani watatoa wapi pesa ya kuongeza mishahara yao?
Acha ujinga nanii. Vijana watarudi default setting tu … back to changaa.
All MPs in Nairobi county will be re elected with exemption to Korir, if u were elected in 2017 with jubilee, utarudi Na UDA same as ODM MPs nothing will change,
Si kila mtu anapenda pombe, sigara na bangi. Zinafaa taxation maradufu… The fact that smoking zones are always next to toilets…ina maana yake. Pombe pia inaelekea hapo. Watu wajifunze kujipikia vileo nyumbani.
Am willing to pay more taxes on whiskey, wines and spirits lakini nao washukishe bei ya chakula. Alcohol is for leisure sio lazima for survival but food is. I hate it when food is unaffordable to common mwananchi. Ongeza taxes kwa pombe, brothels, mafuta ya gari, expressway na car imports but lower the price of fuckin food
It will increase cheap illicit alcohol