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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1508317/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Therefore, as we bring in these Bills to ensure that the salaried and those who pay taxes in this country have a cushion, it is important for those running these businesses to remember that there is a person who walks around to clean the area. He or she may be paid by the county government, but you, as the business owner, do not pay anything. Maybe you pay the county and assume that you are paying tax. No. This Bill will address such issues. There is one thing we need to address, and I hope it will be looked into. In the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), when committee members come for meetings, you are supposed to provide them with a transport or accommodation allowance, especially if they are coming from the farthest end, and so they might be forced to sleep in town where NG-CDF office is located. We must talk to the KRA to ensure that this is not treated as an allowance to be taxed. This is not a person who works somewhere with a salary. Therefore, it is not a sitting allowance. This is simply someone who has come for a meeting and needs transport to go back. We must remove the tax from that because they will still pay VAT. I remember during the late President Mwai Kibaki’s time when he said that it is very difficult to integrate all Kenyans into the tax system. The best you can do is impose VAT so that everyone pays taxes. Let us think about that, even in this House."
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