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    "id": 1043738,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1043738/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020. As we were going through the Tax Laws at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I remember saying that some of the proposals contained in the Bill were unnecessary because we did not have a formula of dealing with it. For instance, we reduced the Corporate Tax by 5 basis point but we did not have a way of ensuring that it would benefit the common mwananchi . Most of us said that for the VAT, there was no way we were going to ensure companies transfer benefits to the common mwananchi . We felt that the Government should have afforded a better approach of collecting taxes and ploughing them to the various sectors that required them for the purposes of intervening in the consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Now that the taxes are being reversed, I want to thank the Government for thinking through this 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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