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    "id": 1091826,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1091826/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I was privileged to have served with Sen. Sakaja in the COVID committee where we specifically gave recommendations that at this point in time the Government should look for money elsewhere and not from the smallest traders that we have. I congratulate Sen. Sakaja for bringing this to the attention of the Senate. This is actually not an issue of double taxation; it is multiple taxation. There is the turn over tax, then there is this 16 per cent that you are talking about on the specific VAT. There is also taxation from the country of origin where the traders have already had to pay and some of these countries of origin already have signed non-double taxation agreements. It is actually going against our international obligations for non-double taxation even where the originating countries have already signed non-tariff barriers with us or have signed a memorandum of understanding not to tax the small traders. I support and I am glad that you are giving it to a committee because this is not just a double taxation for shoe importers, it is actually multiple taxation for all our informal and small traders, and they are being run out of business and creating a monster for this country. I support."
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