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    "content": "The Committee proposes to delete the amendment under paragraph (iv). This was the issue of motorcycles where the Bill was proposing to change from a single value of Kshs11,000 to a percentage of 15 per cent. The House expressed itself on that matter and the Committee proposes to delete that particular amendment because this is an industry that employs many of our people. In (d) and (e) as per the Order Paper, we are proposing to increase Excise Duty on certain items. I propose to move a further amendment to remove the term “single use plastic bottles” and just have it as that. Single use plastic bottles are those we use every day. Because of environmental issues, we propose to impose a 10 per cent Excise Duty on them, but change that particular paragraph to read “articles of plastics tariff heading 3923.30.00”. This is for the purposes of ease of administration of tax to ensure that the Kenya Revenue Authority can find it and impose that particular Excise Duty. There is also the matter of imported pasta, imported furniture and imported paints at 20 per cent, 25 per cent and 10 per cent Excise Duty respectively. These are all in the spirit of protecting the local industries. In (f), we are changing the rate of data from 15 per cent to 20 per cent. On the issue of the other Excise Duty on gambling and betting, we are introducing new areas, so that this is increased to a value of 30 per cent. We are introducing new areas. Price competition refers to the people who call into radio stations when they are told that if they send Kshs100, they will be given Kshs500,000. Rather than just looking at one area, we are also including price competition, non-charitable lotteries, gaming and betting, so that we move it from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. I beg to move that amendment. It had many components and that is why I took a bit of time."
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