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    "id": 1587717,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1587717/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Members, for raising your concerns. I want to give clarity to what this is. Section 7 of the Miscellaneous Fees and Levies Act says: “There shall be paid a fee to be known as the import declaration fee on all goods imported into the country for home use”. Section 6 says: “Out of the fee collected under subsection (2), 10 per cent shall be paid into a Fund established and managed in accordance with the Public Finance Management Act (Cap. 412(a)). The money in the Fund under subsection (6) shall be used for the payment of Kenya's contributions to the African Union and any other international organisation to which Kenya has a financial obligation”. So, there already exists a Fund from where 10 per cent of money collected as import declaration fee pays for our foreign obligations, including to the African Union (AU). What we are saying is that from this Fund, 10 per cent will go into reinforcing digitisation of operations within KRA. There is no creation of an additional fund. We are just saying that as the money is used to pay for international obligations, a part of it can be used for digitising KRA services. Remember, we are coming from a point where we have no fiscal space for KRA to fund some of these expenditures."
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