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    "id": 1060117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to the Supplementary Appropriation Bill of 2021. This Supplementary Appropriation Bill seeks authority to disburse Kshs125.16 billion out of the Consolidated Fund towards services provided by the Government for the year ending June 2021. I was asking myself why we are here for the Supplementary Budget. Why are the expenses whose distribution we want approved in the Supplementary Budget not there in the main Budget? The biggest reason we were given as the Budget and Appropriations Committee was poor revenue performance due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that begot us last year. We are also here because this House, in its wisdom, following a request by His Excellency the President, reduced several taxes that would have netted the gap that we are trying to finance today. The reduction of Income Tax from 30 per cent to 25 per cent, VAT from 16 per cent to 14 per cent, and the bandwidth we removed for PAYE. As a result, we find ourselves not being able to finance the Budget that we passed as a House and, therefore, coming up with this Supplementary Budget. Is it important? Do we need to do 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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