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    "id": 1347045,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1347045/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "The tax policy we use can either destroy or create employment. The tax regime that we have today is very unfriendly to creation of employment. This must end. I am glad we are formulating a policy on taxation. Let us direct it towards creation of employment. We want to create incentives to pay tax for both individual companies and manufacturers. If the tax is not a burden to them, they will pay tax voluntarily. They will not need anybody or income tax officers to have a whip at their back for them to pay. They will volunteer to pay. We will teach them that it is their responsibility to pay tax because it is what makes the Government run. How much tax are we talking about? If it is a killing tax which allows nobody to remain with income for food, then people will evade it. They will try means of not paying it. You will force people to pay what you cannot get. In English, they say you will be killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The National Tax Policy is extremely important. Since everybody is crying that our taxation is too much, I wish they came to contribute to this particular Motion so that we can start again and use taxation to create employment, investments and enable manufacturers to come to Kenya. It will also enable everybody to pay taxes without crying. People are crying currently. That is why I am talking of creating friendly tax."
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