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    "id": 1586026,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1586026/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. We maybe postponing this idea of zero rating, but we need to think about it deeply. We are zero rating very many products but there is no evidence that by zero rating, the benefit goes to the local person or consumer. For instance, the transportation cost for sugarcane. One, how do you prove that these products are being used by tractors? Two, how does that benefit the local person? We have had cases where something like bread is being zero- rated. I know we fear touching these things, So, it is only for that reason that I will support this. Instead of bakeries employing more bakers, the factories are employing more people to claim tax refunds. We are in a situation where tax expenditure, as we were told by the Committee Chairman, is standing at Ksh550 billion in a year. So, we collect Ksh2.4 trillion, but Ksh550 billion is going into expenditure. Partly towards refunds not because people are paid excess, but they have a leeway in law to claim even if they are not giving any benefit. So, we may allow this for now. However, we will need to review it once we explain to the public the nonsense we are engaging the country in. We do not have money to give KRA to pay. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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