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    "id": 1498352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this chance to contribute. I begin with Article 109(5) of the Constitution. There must have been a reason the drafters of the Constitution were very clear and remembered to put an entire statement on how taxation should be done. When county governments are imposing taxes, they should take care of certain national issues which must be protected. This is a country. Everything that a county does must then be in the holistic good of the State. Therefore, this Bill seems very timely on that basis. It will bring harmony on the taxation trends and trajectory that will be put by the county governments. Therefore, I support it. The Bill will take care of the differences in taxes from one county to another and double taxation, which is very common. This will be very good so that we promote business. There is a tendency for leadership within the counties - which I want to become part of - to think that we must tax our goods very highly so that we sell them to the other counties. This will kill the holistic good of national development and the general development of the economy. There is also the challenge of double taxation which many Members will speak on. I would like to speak most on implementing this Bill. When I had a chance of sitting where you are, I thought as we do this, which is a very good idea, we make sure that we take care of how the counties will be dealing with those taxes at different levels. This is very important. We must not do it in a way that injures the independence of the counties and also hurts their existence. Recently, Baba spoke very expressly about counties and almost vilified Parliament. I do not wish to reply, but I sympathise with him. I also thought he remembered our history. We had those county government systems in what was called Majimbo. But around 1964 or 1965, they were just killed because there was a lot of rivalry, like we see today, between the Senate and the National Assembly. Then, the people went overboard and killed the Senate. However, the counties have been very helpful. They need to be protected. I stand here as a protector of counties, as I look at this law which is very good for the tax regime that we will set. As we do this, we must make sure that we do not kill the counties. Remember, we were talking about the division of revenue today. One of the challenges the counties face is the flow of monies from the National Government to the county governments. What is also at risk and being discussed is how much are the funds? Recently, we had the deficit which we said could not be achieved. The mitigating factor for the deficit we have for the revenues within the"
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