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    "id": 1512521,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wakili Edward Muriu",
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    "content": " My proposal here is to have Clause 20 amended in sub-paragraph (x) of paragraph (a) by deleting proposed new paragraph 151 which touches on fertilisers on Chapter 31. I propose that amendment because we are saying that we are removing fertilisers from being zero-rated to tax exempt. I have had a conversation with the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and he assured me that the moment we go that direction, VAT would be passed on to the farmers making a fallacy of the Government policy of reducing the cost of farming. We already have subsidised the fertiliser programme so when you introduce the tax on the other hand, it makes a fallacy of that policy. But the Chairman has assured me that in his amendment, he has done ‘exempt exempt’ of the fertiliser in such a way that there would be no taxes on fertiliser which come in to increase its cost again."
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