[kictanet] Are we letting the PS get away with this too?

[Brainiac]

@yawe I would say i agree with you that the best way to tax a nation is at
the point of consumption, doing so makes sense to me (hence the ridiculous
suggestion i made the other day to scrap all income related taxes and just
up vat a point or two), What pains me in this instance however has more to
do with the moral authority to impose an additional tax burden. Is it any
surprise to you that what is needed to implement the constitution would be
hugely boosted by a certain 4.7Billion that might easily end up somewhere
else.

And just who are we kidding, even if safaricom paid all its income as tax,
what is twenty seven billion divided by nine hundred and ninety something
billion times a hundred? less than 3% of our budget. I think as taxpayers we
deserve a break, at least give us a reason to give cheerflully .. (for God
loves a cheerful giver).

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:44 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> I agree with the PS, the constitution might even be the list of the
> government funded projects to be directly affected by lower mobile tariffs
> because airtime like alcohol and fuel have a sin tax.
>
> The best way to tax a nation where 80% of the adults do not pay income tax
> is to collect at the point of consumption.  KRA has enjoyed good tidings and
> continues to do so because of implementing a tax regime that is customised
> to the local environment, peculiar situations by peculiar people require
> peculiar solutions.
>
> Note that the tax on airtime is based on a percentage so do the month, if
> this value keeps dropping the government collects less and therefore has
> less funds to meet its expenditure obligations.  What then happens is that
> they look for other avenues to cover the deficit such as increasing the
> price of fuel.
>
> The airtime wars are not local they are global and we make a very small
> indentation on this organisations bottom line which makes this a playing
> ground and us pawns and unless our queen, bishops and rocks protect us we
> shall be left high and try.
>
> Once Airtel realise that their forever tariff changes are not producing the
> expected results all they need to do is sell off to another multinational
> player who is then not bound by the forever tariff and can then come in and
> take over the market from a weakened competition, Strategy 101.
>
> Yes, lower tariffs has a far reaching impact than many of us care to
> consider, that is why we pay our PS what we do so that he can consider such
> issues.
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* [Brainiac] <arebacollins at gmail.com>
> *To:* robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
>
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Tue, 18 January, 2011 11:42:29
> *Subject:* [kictanet] Are we letting the PS get away with this too?
>
> I seriously hope that this http://bit.ly/famTA5 is just some fanatical
> reporting at Nation Media (would not be shocked) but if so, if these words
> came out of your mouth bwana PS,
>
> THAT THE PRICE WARS IN THE MOBILE INDUSTRY MIGHT DERAIL THE NEW
> CONSTITUTION.
>
> Are you for Real? Is that not cartel behaviour right there? So now what,
> are you going to "adjust" the lowest interconnection fees upwards to
> normalize all this? so that what? Safaricom can make more money?
>
> Playing on the public with FUD now? what happened to market forces? who
> would run their company to a grind just to offer the cheapest?  Revenue
> collection? how about we first spend PRUDENTLY what we collect? how about
> ALL of us pay taxes for starters? and why not just LOWER taxes and increase
> the tax bracket?
>
> I have never been disappointed like i have on reading this.
>
> If it looks like Impunity, Smells like Impunity , guess what it is....
>
>
>


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