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    "id": 1510812,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1510812/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party. Hon. Omondi raises an important matter. However, the taxpayers mentioned some of the challenges that they are going through. For example, perhaps, you are supposed to pay taxes before the 20th of the month, and on that day, the KRA system is down and, therefore, you are not able to pay, or the system is not able to accept your payment. You then start attracting interest and penalties even when it was not your error or your intention to delay that particular payment. That interest or penalty will automatically accrue to the taxpayer. The KRA has no power to correct or amend that interest or penalty. Therefore, this provision is giving the Commissioner-General some leeway to correct such a situation. However, we are also providing for that register to be gazetted and to come to this House after gazettement, as long as the House is in session. So, the amendment is trying to correct that complexity. It is trying to correct the complexity the taxpayer goes through by denying the Commissioner-General power to make a decision to remove the interest."
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