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    "id": 1061447,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1061447/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 180,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13423,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
        "slug": "joshua-mbithi-mwalyo-2"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to air my views on the Value Added Tax (Digital Market Place Supply) Regulations 2020. The VAT is an instrument that helps the Government to collect funds and it has not been very efficient. You find that there are some amounts that are not even remitted because they have not been added to the iTax. Therefore, the digital addition will rope in those who have been evading taxes, and are many. Some importers, especially international ones, do not even have the iTax systems. They are not included yet they sell online. You pay them via M-PESA and they deliver to your doorstep. We have been losing revenue and that is why we have no cash flow because very many people are trading, but are not paying taxes through the right channels. Again, the local mwananchi, especially local contractors and importers, pay taxes at the entry. They pay VAT and even when they invoice, they invoice again with VAT. They end up paying double VAT, which they do not recover. When they ask for a refund, it takes eight months to a year and one does not have cashflow because they have already spent the money on the KRA."
}