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    "content": "to fly to China or Italy. They never know when they will be able to fly out again. Therefore, they should promote EPZ. There is a proposal to introduce a small duty of 2.5 per cent of the custom value of goods tendered for home use from EPZ. This is to enable the Government to raise some little tax. As I get to the tail end of my summary, there are very strategic projects that were proposed by the Government, but implementation has taken time. Members might be asking when the expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to Westlands will be constructed. This will be constructed using the Public Private Partnership (PPP). We did not have a framework on how the investors would recover. This is a situation where an investor invests money on a public road but, to recover the investment, the Government will not pay from the revenue it collects. The investor will be required to collect money using a toll. Most Members here and Kenyans who have travelled abroad know that if you want to move fast, you use the toll road. The toll enables the investor to collect the funding they used plus the agreed profit, until the road pays itself according to the arrangement. In other countries, they say it is build, operate and transfer. So, after recovering what has been agreed, then you transfer back. Another very strategic road will enable Kenyans from western Kenya to move faster from Nairobi all the way to the intersection at Mau Summit on the road to Kisumu and Eldoret. The road will also be built under PPP and, to enable it to be implemented, this Bill is proposing to introduction a toll fund which will be used to pay for those roads. There is also a proposal to enable KRA to offer capacity building services to others like county governments. This is expanding their scope to include capacity building and training. At the same time, it is allowing KRA to work for other entities like county governments, including parastatals which want its services. That way, KRA will be able to collect more and offer services to Kenyans at the same time. The KRA has been known at some point not to achieve its targets. Yes, it is not the best but it is actually on top in Kenya in terms of revenue collection. What we hear from KRA is that when they moved to collect parking fees in Nairobi, it went to up five times from what was being collected by the County Government directly. So, KRA can do better. Even other counties can hire it to collect for them."
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