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    "id": 1512524,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1512524/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I would like to give Hon. Muriu the comfort that this is something that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has already deliberated on. Tax expenditures and revenue leakage are a huge expense in this country. Additionally, most of these zero-rated ones are not sustainable. However, we need to be very careful not to increase the cost of very essential products like fertiliser or agricultural inputs. Hon. Muriu, what we have done on page 1025 of the Bill, Clause 20(10) - which is the last item on that page - is we have inserted the following new paragraphs immediately after paragraph 148: “all imported inputs and raw materials supplied to the manufacture of agricultural pest control products, upon recommendation by the Cabinet Secretary for the time being responsible for Agriculture, agricultural pest control products, fertiliser of Chapter 31 and input of raw materials locally purchased or imported by manufacturers of fertiliser as approved”. So, we are making all the raw materials for fertiliser and agricultural pesticides to be exempt. There is no increase in cost if we exempt the raw material and the finished product. The risk would be if we took it to a standard rate or exempted products without exempting raw materials. That way, you go to exempt raw materials and finished products. That does not lead to an increase in cost but also reduces our tax expenditures."
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