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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I take this opportunity to thank the Senate Majority Leader, who is the Mover of this Bill, for being very eloquent in his usual style. He has explained this Bill very well. I know that the Senators who are listening will agree with me that we are here to discuss about Own Source Revenue (OSR) for the counties where we come from. OSR has become a real big challenge because many counties, including my county, have not really had a law such as this that will allow proper access to funds from property taxes. This also applies to developed counties like Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Uasin-Gishu. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at their collection through the rating process, it has a lot of challenges. This is because the legal framework for collection and standardization does not exist. Nonetheless, property rating is one of the most fundamental and reliable ways of making good the targets of OSR. When we had the debate on the Finance Act, one of my relatives who lives in the US called and asked me what the big fuss was about. As I was trying to explain, he told me that in their State where they live in the United States (US), they depend on property taxes to finance all their activities. They are really focused on rating and that is what helps them to finance activities within their own State. Therefore, they could not relate why we were having a big fight about the Finance Bill in this place. This brings to fore the question of rating and OSR for our counties. In our County, we are third lowest when it comes to the collection of OSR. Despite the fact that we have a very large land mass in Tana River County, we have not been able to benefit from rating that land. Madam Temporary Speaker, we depend on what we collect from auctions from goats, cows and camels, which is a very little revenue. They also go to the market to collect money, which is little revenue. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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