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    "id": 1441758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I want to be clear and on the record that, at the outset, I oppose this Bill in totality for the simple reason that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Kenya Kwanza regime are hoodwinking Kenyans on the basis of removing VAT on bread and motor vehicle tax, amongst others. I want to put those people on notice. There are three things that they have introduced in this Bill to tax Kenyans more. The first thing that they have introduced is a new clause on road maintenance levy. Some of us are not fools anymore. The road maintenance levy is supposed to raise an estimated amount of Ksh46 billion. The second thing they have introduced in this Bill that is more fundamental to the common wananchi is the import declaration fee (IDF). They are raising the IDF from 1.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent where they are targeting to raise an estimated amount of Ksh12 billion. The third thing they have proposed in the Finance Bill, as captured in their Report, is the Railway Development Levy. They should be raising a whopping Ksh88.8 billion on those three fundamental things compared to what they are telling Kenyans that they have removed, which is Ksh76 billion. When you tell Kenyans you have removed the 16 per cent VAT, are you not aware that 80 per cent of the wheat we use in this country to produce bread is imported? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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