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    "id": 1061323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1061323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
        "slug": "john-sakwa-bunyasi"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the proposed Regulations. The idea is definitely the right direction. The KRA, as our fiscal agent, will be in a much better position when they have digitized such an important tax like VAT. My hope is that the KRA systems will go in the same direction. I hope their systems will be digitized so that they can be accessible by all taxpayers and non-taxpayers who want to see what is happening. I hope they will make it more responsive to clients’ needs where refunds are involved because they will see it at a glance. I hope their figures and the figures at the National Treasury as regards estimates of revenue will continue to agree. Also, all the figures will be verifiable by other interested parties. So, this is a great step in the right direction. I think taxpayers and citizens as a whole can get back to the task of asking whether they are paying too much. There will be evidence that tax is being collected because they will have to collect what we pass here as law. We have seen the outcry in the recent past about the amount of taxes that have come forth. People are getting more conscious of it. That means, as a country, we are thinking about affordability in terms of payment of taxes. All the good roads, the new buildings and all other infrastructural developments have to be paid for. These taxes, including VAT, are getting into homesteads in the villages. They can see the increase in their cost of living necessitated by taxes that they have to pay to cater for the various services they receive and the goods they purchase. Maybe, city dwellers with higher incomes will just talk about it. You will talk about how painful it is to fill the tank of your gas guzzler – that is 90 litres. The paraffin user in the village is worried about how to make ends meet following an increase in taxes on commodities and services he has to pay for every day, including matatu and"
}