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    "id": 1062265,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "This is the conversation that I am willing to have with my colleague Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. What are we going to do with these taxes? First, the Petroleum Regulatory Levy, the Railways Development Levy, the Anti-adulteration Levy, the Merchant Shipping Levy, the import declaration fee, VAT, and all the taxes. If you add all of them, they add up to Kshs57.33. When the oil or fuel landed in Mombasa, it was at Kshs49.84. That was heavily affected by the exchange rate of the foreign currency which we cannot control because of the current pandemic. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what I like about the Statement sought by my colleague is that the next question is what happened to that levy? Is that levy supposed to cushion? With that aspect, I am willing to go to a greater extent as a Member of that Committee to see what happened to that money. Can we use that money to cushion Kenyans? However, the buck stops with us now limiting the amount of taxes that we will charge. Are we really going to be able to do that? I think that is the question that my friend, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I need to ponder on. We are both Members of the Committee on Finance and Budget. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in terms of the issue of the taxation, how will the country function if we limit the taxes? I support that and I look forward to receiving that Statement in our Committee so that we can give a more comprehensive response to the query that the Senator has sought."
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