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    "id": 1151205,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151205/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13179,
        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
        "slug": "farhiya-ali-haji"
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    "content": "payment of employees’ salaries due to delay in disbursement of the equitable share by the National Treasury. As the term indicates, PAYE is pay as you earn. You cannot pay taxes where no salary was paid because of late disbursement by the National Treasury. The arms of Government should speak to each other because KRA is a department of the National Treasury. Therefore, they should speak to each other so that no county assembly is penalized highly because of non-remittance. PAYE as the name suggests becomes due when people have been paid their salaries. We have requested SOCATT to petition this House, so that the matter can be dealt with conclusively by the Committee on Finance and Budget. A number of county assemblies had requested for upward adjustments of the recurrent expenditure ceiling to allow certain spending. However, it was noted that some of these spending would be classified as development expenditure. Many counties requested for the increase of the recurrent expenditure ceilings. When the Committee on Finance and Budget analysed those expenditures critically, we discovered that they were more of development nature than a recurrent cost. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Garissa County Assembly requested to increase its recurrent expenditure ceiling by Kshs20 million. They said this was to enable them construct a chamber and restore equipment destroyed by fire. Nairobi City County Assembly requested to adjust their recurrent expenditure ceiling to enable leasing of MCAs offices within the proximity of the assembly precincts. However, this expenditure would be quite expensive in the long run. Those were not accepted by our Committee. The SOCATT requested to adjust the recurrent expenditure ceiling for county assemblies to provide for additional allocation. This additional allocation would cater for public participation, independent from the operations and maintenance. The Committee decided that this would only be achieved if mechanisms are put in place to ascertain the actual spending. In that case, the estimates were not clearly tabulated to determine whether those would be the correct estimates of the expenditure. The Committee recommends that the House approves the Bill with the amendments, to the Second Schedule adjustments of county assemblies’ recurrent expenditure ceilings by additional Kshs83 million to enable assemblies compensate the actual numbers of employees. To minimize operational costs, county assemblies renting offices for MCAs while within the county assembly precincts should plan to construct or acquire such offices. County governments should notify KRA of late payments of salaries due to delayed disbursement of equitable share. This is as a means to mitigate the imposition of penalties for delay in filing of PAYE returns. In conclusion, the Committee acknowledges all stakeholders and members of the public who made insightful contributions and recommendations to the Bill. Particularly, the Committee acknowledges the following stakeholders who have been quite instrumental in the operations of the Committee: the National Treasury, CRA, CoG, CAF; SOCATT, the Institute of Certified Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), the"
}