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    "id": 1498189,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498189/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "I was talking about bed occupancy in hotels. For example, a tourist comes and he is charged levies, he pays for his bed and then he is told that he has to pay county rates. He then asks himself, supposing he went to Zanzibar, would he pay the same? We have that kind of problem in this country where we do not have repeat visitors or guests. It makes marketing very expensive because the rates that are charged in hotels are very high. For example, we have a county charging a small hotel Ksh25,000 a month for garbage collection. That is passed by the county assembly in their finance bill. The same hotel plays music, and the county charges money for the music and noise pollution. The same county charges trade and public health licenses. I hope I am getting understood. When we put all those levies together, it makes it very expensive for one to operate that office because it is not regulated. In the ease of doing business in our country, Kenya is ranked as one of the countries that are improving, with the one-stop-shop where you pay all levies and taxes at one place. The issue of tax and levy administration itself becomes very expensive if it is not regulated. This is a very important piece of legislation that we must hasten, so as to make this country one that has good index in terms of ease of doing business. That is so as counties do not continue to impose levies."
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