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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also give thanks to the Committee, and to the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. As I said when we were discussing the President’s State of the Nation Address, the country is becoming calm. We are now able to focus and move ahead. I hope that the citizens have seen that in the last few weeks, in this Parliament, we have tried to bring what they have been asking for. One of the things I appreciate in the Tax Procedures (Amendment) Bill is that it now simplifies and clarifies several tax processes. It also informs citizens on how they can even do their electronic invoices. It outlines for them to avoid any confusion. The Bill also eradicates corruption. One of the issues we have had with tax is that Kenyans are feeling the harsh times and they feel we have really pushed them hard. Let me give an example and I hope the President will look at the cities and talk to the governors of the cities. In Nairobi, for example, we have someone who wakes up every morning to manage the washrooms that you see across Nairobi. When I was Speaker of the Nairobi City County Assembly, one washroom in Nairobi, especially in the CBD where there is a high flow of people makes not less than Ksh100,000 every day. This person does not pay tax — you cannot tax him or her. The least they can walk away with is Ksh50,000. A shoe shiner in Nairobi, who shines your shoes every morning, may not be the actual owner of the business, because there is the shoe shiner and the owner of the tent. The owner of the tent is similar to a matatu owner. The same money a matatu driver hands over to their boss in the evening is the same money the shoe shiner takes to the owner and then goes home with something, but it is not taxed."
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