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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Godfrey Osotsi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also support the two Petitions. The issue of increasing the fuel prices is serious because it will directly affect many parameters in the economy. I thank you for forwarding this matter to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, so that they can extensively look at it and give proper directions to this House. One of the major contributing factors for the fuel price increase is the many levies that are put on fuel. We have the Excise Duty, Value Added Tax (VAT), Road Maintenance Levy, Petroleum Development Levy, Petroleum Regulatory Levy, Railway Development Levy, Anti- Adulteration Levy, Merchant Shipping Levy and Import Declaration Fee. That is excessive. That is what we call multiple-taxation! When the Committee members sits down, they need to look at all those levies and determine their value addition, so that those which do not make sense such as the Anti-Adulteration Levy are removed. That is the function of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA). They cannot go on charging levies and, at the same time, they also charge the Petroleum Regulatory Levy. The Committee has a lot of work to do. Most importantly, I have had the benefit of working for the Energy Regulatory Commission in my employment before they took over the petroleum docket. With the introduction of petroleum as a docket to EPRA, there is a lot of information which needs to come out on how they calculate the pricing of fuel. The Committee should look into this in detail to determine what The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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