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    "id": 1171796,
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    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "in partnership with the taxpayers. The Bill is basically meant to change that name wherever it appears within the current laws, like within anti-counterfeit, gaming, Income Tax and air passenger. All the laws that have KRA as a player will now be changed to reflect this new thinking of having it as a service. The Bill also seeks to clean up some references to ‘minister’ and ‘permanent secretary’ that have not been cleaned up yet, and to convert them to the current nomenclature of cabinet secretary and principal secretary respectively. I really do not want to get into a lot of details in terms of what the KRA does. We all know it. It has been quite successful in boosting the revenues of this country. We hope that when we change the name, they will become much more friendly and accessible. People who fear them will not have that feeling that they are dealing with an Authority that can take all their assets and money, but one that can facilitate them. I know that Hon. Members have been affected by this. As we are considering this Bill, I would like to ask the people at the KRA to serve Members of Parliament well. I do not know how many of you have gone for your tax compliance certificates and received them at the first instance. There is always an issue. There is an issue of reconciliation between Parliament and KRA, because the two systems do not work together. As we support them to change into a service, I want them to start thinking of integrating their systems. When we pay taxes through our payroll here in Parliament, it should be reflected simultaneously in the KRA. The Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and the KRA systems do not also agree. If any Member of Parliament or public servant goes for his tax clearance certificate on the first or second day of the next month, he should receive it without being told to go and bring some stamped P9 Forms from Parliament, so that they can see that the money was deducted and paid. The two systems should work together. I want to appeal to the KRA that as we change them, let them also do some of those basic things so that people are not delayed unnecessarily. This happened the other day to a Member whom we appointed as an ambassador or one of the commissioners of the EACC. He was told that he was not tax compliant just because of the same issues. I would like to ask them to address it. Like I said, this Bill is straightforward. We are only changing the name of the KRA, and some of those bits and pieces in terms of where there is reference to a minister to change it to cabinet secretary or permanent secretary to make it principal secretary. I do not want to belabour the point and keep talking about the obvious."
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