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"content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion:"
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"content": "THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 120, this House resolves to reduce the publication period of the following Bills from fourteen (14) days to twelve (12) days in order to facilitate public and stakeholder engagement: 1. The Public Finance Management (Amendment) (No.3), Bill (National Assembly Bill No.44 of 2024); 2. The Public Finance Management (Amendment) (No.4) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.45 of 2024);"
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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": "3. The Tax Procedures (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.46 of 2024); 4. The Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.47 of 2024); 5. The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.48 of 2024); and, 6. The Business Laws (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.49 of 2024). For information to the Members and the country, I want to state that those six Bills are very important. You are aware that there were very many progressive proposals, including the tax amnesty that lapsed on 30th of June, that Kenyans were waiting for at the end of the last financial year. With the loss of the Finance Bill, 2024, some of the good proposals that were there like that tax amnesty have evaded Kenyans. Quite a number of business people are suffering from incessant demands from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for both their tax arrears penalties and interests. Therefore, some of the proposals include that tax amnesty in this Tax Procedures (Amendment) Bill. Other Bills deal with public finance management and public procurement. The business laws also carry very crucial amendments to many business laws, especially in the manufacturing industry, that will facilitate the local production of goods. If we do not reduce the publication period of those Bills, we may not manage to conclude with their enactment before the end of this session on the 5th of December, according to our Calendar. We, therefore, want to reduce the publication period by just two days so that we may begin…"
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"content": "(Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose consulted loudly)"
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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, protect me from Hon. Pukose. He is louder than me on the microphone."
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"content": "Hon. Pukose, the Leader of the Majority Party is giving a very good explanation on some serious amendments. I think it is important that you allow Members to pay attention."
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"content": " Thank you for that protection, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In view of our scheduled Calendar, we are to proceed on the long recess on 5th December and we want to avoid a situation where we have to recall Members for a special sitting. We also want to save those business people who have to now deal with KRA on matters of tax amnesty to, at least, have that tax amnesty in place before the end of this year. This will ensure that they do not continue accruing interests and penalties. We would want to see the enactment of all these Bills before the end of this financial year and the end of this session. By reducing the publication period by only two days, from 14 days to 12 days, and without anticipating debate on Order No.12, all the way to Order No.17, we will create time to progress the bills through public participation and stakeholder engagement. Allow me to thank the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, Ministry of Trade, Investment and Industry and the Chairpersons of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co- operatives. That is because I have already seen them begin that public and stakeholder engagement. Last week, I saw them in what you would call a townhall debate on Citizen Television, engaging and explaining to Kenyans the import of those Bills, and the policies that each of the Bills is anchored on. Those are some of the things that the courts have been speaking to; that we need to sensitise Kenyans on the import of every legislative proposal that we bring to this House. The"
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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": "Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, Ministry of Trade, Investment and Industry, and others like the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, have already begun that stakeholder engagement and sensitisation of Kenyans on the import of those Bills, the policies they are anchored on and the positive impact they will have on businesses. As the National Assembly, we also need to engage in that stakeholder engagement. For us to have time for meaningful, qualitative and quantitative public participation as we have been told by the courts, we thought it was important to reduce the publication period by those two days. This will ensure that the Bills come for First Reading and the relevant committees begin the engagement with the public. This is by sensitising and informing them so that we pre-empt what we saw happen with the Finance Bill, 2024 in June, and many other Bills including the land amendment clause, where people pick up just a small element of a legislative proposal and spin it in a narrative that will suit their political narratives and not necessarily the truth. We have, therefore, learnt that informing Kenyans should be part of what we should do early. We want to use this opportunity to begin informing Kenyans. Hence, the reason I said that I thank the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, Ministry of Trade, Investment and Industry and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, for the sensitisation they have done with this particular legislative proposal. Even before they submitted the legislative proposals to the National Assembly, I know the ministries advertised for Kenyans to submit their views on each of the legislative proposals that they wanted to touch on, whether on manufacturing or on tax procedures, and how Kenyans would expect to have a tax system that is more efficient, fair and justifiable. From the many proposals that Kenyans gave to the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning and the Ministry of Trade, Investment and Industry, they were sieved down into the legislative proposals that were brought to the House. As I said, they further engaged stakeholders on Citizen Television last week. It will now be our time as the National Assembly to meaningfully engage Kenyans. I trust that the chairpersons of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co- operatives, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining, Hon. Gakuya, Hon. Kimani Kuria and Hon. Gikaria, who are here, will engage Kenyans on many of those proposals. This will ensure that Kenyans are well informed and not misinformed and disinformed by those who are intent on disinforming and misinforming them. As I said, many of those proposals are critical not just for the continuity of business in this country, but also to ensure that businesses are saved from the penalties and interests that are being levied to them by KRA on account of tax arrears. Many people are suffering from cheap imports that we can protect them from. It is our duty as legislators to protect our local industries so that we may spur growth from the manufacturing sector of our economy. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we were in Naivasha, we had an engagement with KEPSA. When the Chairman of KEPSA spoke in that meeting, he indicated how manufacturers today are shifting to other destinations like Uganda and Tanzania because they have created a more conducive manufacturing environment than ours. These incentives that are contained in this Business Laws (Amendment) Bill are to create a conducive manufacturing sector in our country. The Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (Amendment) Act has good proposals. I ask the Members to apprise themselves with the contents of these Bills so that when they are confronted by the media with questions about what is contained in them, they are informed. We heard somebody saying she does not know the difference between the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and Shifo . I will be very embarrassed to hear the same Member say she does not know the difference between the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal (Amendment) Bill, the Tax Procedures (Amendment) Bill or the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill. Let us apprise ourselves with the contents of all these Bills."
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