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    "id": 1260618,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "This particular clause recommends to taking items from exemption to zero rating. Last year, we passed an amendment here in the last Finance Bill that provided zero rating of exportation of taxable services, but we added other words saying “export of taxable services for business process services.” As a result of just including the words “business processing”, it meant that that particular clause has not been possible to implement. Therefore, this amendment is deleting that business process operation so that we zero-rate exportation of taxable services. We have a rule in this country that all goods meant for export are zero-rated and, therefore, we are giving a similar treatment to export of services so that they are also zero-rated. Secondly, we are looking at something on green energy. By us giving incentives to our manufacturers to go green, we are proposing that supply of lithium ion batteries that are going to be used on electronic motor vehicles and electronic motorcycles to be zero-rated. We are also saying that importation of electric buses be zero-rated. That is very crucial. It is equally important for the manufacture of animal feeds to be also zero-rated. This is going to bring down the cost of animal feeds. In addition, the clause on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has been put for exemption but we are now recommending it to be zero-rated. Lastly, bio ethanol vapour stoves are recommended for zero-rating. During public participation, a demonstration was done to us of Kenyans who have provided technology that is allowing use of bio-ethanol fuel that is going to reduce the cost of cooking to Ksh10 per meal. The stoves are available in the market at only Ksh1,520. These are some of the measures that the Committee put in place to make sure that we carry on our tax incentives towards going green and mitigate the impact that the increase in VAT might have on the cost of fuel in this particular country. With that, I beg to move."
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