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    "id": 1061319,
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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chair. As my colleagues have suggested, the issue of the Committee on Delegated Legislation is to check that everything is in order, there is content and that timelines have been maintained. They are not here to look at taxation. The responsibility of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning is to look at the aspect of particular taxation; what it does and how it works. I stand to support the Motion because it accepts and looks at digitisation of the VAT Act. Taxation must be an effective and robust system; one that is efficient, reliable and, timely. The VAT system had become very cumbersome; very bureaucratic. The VAT refunds were taking years and years to do and people had started taking advantage of the system. Corruption had set in because of inefficiencies. Files were disappearing. I think by doing it digitally, the bureaucracy is going to be put back. It is going to be efficient. The taxpayer is going to understand what is happening. He can check his digital statement. There will be a track of what you are doing, how much you spent, how much VAT you have collected for the State and how much you have paid. I support whole-heartedly the issue of digitisation and efficiency of this. Tax, like death, is inevitable. The best thing to do is to have a robust system and a system of tax that people can accept as being fair and transparent and I think this is the way we are going. KRA is clearing all the Value Added Tax (VAT) claims that have taken nearly five years, which have been subjected to so much corruption. With those remarks, I support."
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