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    "id": 1019550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1019550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Members noted in the last or last but one finance Bills that we said that the new advance tax would be synchronised with the business permits which are collected by the counties. If we do not have this uniformity, it will become very difficult for KRA to determine how much a trader paid in his or her business permit and how much they will charge him or her for advanced tax because it is tied to the kind of permit that you have. By having this uniform system which is interlinked, then payment and assessment of taxes will be easier. Those are some of the things that can happen well in this kind of situation. Obviously, Members have raised the issues of how much money is leaking out, not being collected or collected and disappearing because it is not accounted for. Traders always complain that they pay so much taxes. However, when you look at the reverse of that in the books of the counties, you do not see the so much money that is collected from them. This means that there is a missing link between people paying and the money being reported in the counties. We hope that some of these amendments will address this issue. The Members of the National Assembly are the only ones who know the capacity of this country to generate revenue. We are the only ones who can do the vertical division of revenue between the levels of Government. When we say that we can only afford Kshs316 billion, our colleagues from the Senate, just to be seen to be good to the counties, say that we should allocate more money to the counties than we can afford. Never mind the fact that even when we give Kshs316 billion and appropriate the balance to the national Government, we are still left with a financing deficit in the order of Kshs800 billion."
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