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    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. The payment of tax is everybody's obligation. In this country, we finance our activities through taxes. So, it is important to ensure that we have an effective and efficient system of tax collection and administration. As the Mover has articulated, a tax invoice is required for legal and compliance standards, where tax reporting matters are concerned. Clause 2 of the Bill is clarifying this. I once received an electronic tax invoice, but it did not contain a reference or the office it emanated from. I went to the KRA for three days and could not trace the origin of the invoice. This Bill is addressing the requirement of an electronic tax invoice with the content clarified like the details of the payer, its origin, information of the transaction and electronic signatures. This Bill is important because it will make it easier for taxpayers to understand what they are paying and for what period. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Clause 2 addresses the issue of amnesty. Why do we need tax amnesty? We know that at times there are natural calamities that can cause one not to pay tax. There is even what we call transition of business from one to the other, and also re- locations. In many cases, you find that the taxpayer does not meet the tax obligations in good time. For this reason, it is very important that the tax procedure addresses the inconveniences that are caused in terms of payment of their taxes. We have seen many people who are not able to pay tax because of sickness or even injury and amnesty is very important. Therefore, I agree that an extension of this amnesty is very valid, important and we need to support. There is the element of tax relief. You find that in many cases, there is conflict, doubt or even difficulties in the tax recovery. One complication that I have come across is the issue of disability of the taxpayer, death, where you find somebody who has been running a business or even an employed passes on and he has left tax liabilities. He or she is not able to pay that and the next of kin are not able to pay that tax. Because of that, there is need to have a tax relief framework that will enable such cases to be looked at and to enable either total forgiveness on paying of tax, or tax relief is granted according to a legal framework. The 10 percent penalty of failure to limit tax is very important to me. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this Bill addresses the cost-effective collection of taxes. In many cases, you find that we are not able to be everywhere. This Bill aims to synchronize all the electronic documents into one system together with the i-Tax for the purpose of summation of electronic documents. Everybody is going online."
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