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    "id": 1173427,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1173427/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "base at the bottom of the economic pyramid so that we get more taxpayers into the tax net. We must also reform the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). If you speak to the Director-General, Mr. Mburu of KRA, he will tell you that for the last three years, he has been unable to recruit new staff. We gave them money in the 2019/2020 Budget, but that money was removed in the Supplementary Estimate I after I left the seat of the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee. The KRA today is an institution that we must restructure and renew, so that even part of the money they are collecting from taxpayers is done as a percentage of what they collect. We must recapitalise or empower KRA in terms of the amount of money they get and maybe probably give them about five per cent of the revenues they collect. That will encourage them to pay their staff better, recruit more people and collect more money from the taxpayers. There are many people in this country who do not pay taxes. What we are confronted with today is a regime that is more intent on killing businesses than encouraging taxpayers. Today, if you go to Naivasha, a thriving business, Keroche Breweries, which was being run by the lady called Tabitha Karanja, is closed down simply because of her political affiliations! That has rendered close to 3,000 taxpayers jobless! You go to Thika, the factory that was run by Humphrey Kariuki that employed close to 5,000 people has been shut down! I want to say, as I conclude, because I see time is over, that we must empower KRA to collect more revenue. We must rebuild our economy from the bottom to up. I rise to vehemently oppose the increment of the variation of this public debt ceiling because it will be a further burden to Kenyans. I beg to oppose."
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