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"content": "became a member of the Inclusive Framework on BEPS in January 2017 and made a commitment to implement the BEPS package that contains the action plans. We are now urging the House to agree with the Report of the Committee to ratify this Convention because it will not only help other countries to deal with tax avoidance, but it will also help us as a country because we have many multinational enterprises that operate in our country and have bases or enterprises operating in other countries. Therefore, to ensure that they are not shifting their profits and there is no base erosion between our country and the other countries that those multinationals operate in, we should agree with the Committee and ratify this Convention. I support the Convention and urge Members to support it as well."
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"content": " Very well. Is Hon. Andrew Okuome in the House? I propose that if you want to speak on this particular Motion, put your card in the intervention slot because the list that I have here could be… I can see Hon. Catherine Wambilianga of Bungoma is not here. Let us have Nominated Member, Hon. Irene Mayaka."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support the Report by the Chairperson, who is a colleague in the accounting world. The Leader of the Majority Party alluded to BEPS that are currently being used in the world. I would like to invite us to have a look…"
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"content": "(Hon. Kuria Kimani consulted loudly with other Members)"
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"content": "I wish the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning would listen because I can see he is being interrupted and yet, this is very important."
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"content": " Order, Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. The Member wishes that you listen to her. Proceed."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was drawing the attention of the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning to this because the Leader of the Majority Party talked about base erosion. I just wanted to point him in the direction of the model that the European Union (EU) uses. They have a Digital Service Act (DSA) that ensures that countries within the EU are subjected to those specific rules, so that they avoid the dual taxation that happens for multinational companies. That is very important for our example as well because we could have similar situations within the African sphere for multinational companies that have a base either in East, Central or Western Africa. I agree with the submission by the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) because they have spoken very well to this matter. They have given us a view. I like the fact that the Report of the Committee speaks to that. It states that Kenya should reserve the right to apply domestic laws to resolve cases of dual resident entities. This is very important for us. KEPSA speaks to this matter because majority of the multinational companies that operate within Kenya, and the other countries in East Africa, are their members. This is very important to them as it seeks to ensure that once this Report is passed, those multinationals that operate within our space are protected. I also agree with the reservations on Articles 5 and 16 of the Convention on Application of Methods for Elimination of Double Taxation and Mutual Agreement Procedure respectively. This is because some of the issues that have been allayed in Article 5 do not reflect on the current nature of the economy and market that we operate in as Kenya. It does not favour us. It favours markets that are more advanced than ours. Therefore, we must always remember that"
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"content": "The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "in as much as we want to ratify and apply ourselves to what is happening in the rest of the world, we must also always seek to first of all protect the people who operate within our system. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those very few remarks, I support the Report, but with the reservations that I have indicated. I thank you."
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"content": " Hon. Bernard Kitur, Member for Nandi Hills."
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