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    "id": 1590425,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1590425/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "tax policy approaches such as incentivising compliance, simplifying tax procedures and overreaching barriers that hinder our revenue growth. Addressing this issue proactively and implementing them effectively, tax policies will ensure that we increase our tax revenue collection, in line with our economic potential. This will strengthen our fiscal position, allowing for investment in key sectors, social welfare programmes and infrastructure development that will foster economic growth to benefit all Kenyans. This huge task would not have been completed without the efforts of our dedicated and most professional secretarial staff. These unsung heroes worked day and night, without any supervision, to ensure that the Committee’s Report before the House comprehensively, responds to each of the 5,000 plus submissions received by this Committee. Production of this Report would also not have been possible were it not for the commitment of Members of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. I am proud to be one among the equals who lead a very effective and committed team of Members of this particular Committee. We divided ourselves into groups. With a record 10 days, we covered public participation in 10 different counties across this Republic. In conclusion, in your inaugural speech in this House as the newly appointed Speaker in 2023, you indicated that one of our key visions for the National Assembly was e-Parliament. I am proud that consideration of the Finance Bill, 2025 was a paperless exercise. The only paper in the process was a copy of the Report we tabled last week. This was an invention of a young man, an intern in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, called Mr Alan Kimani. He is a Computer Science graduate of Kenyatta University. He developed a QR code. When stakeholders came to submit their proposals, they would just come and register without jumping the queue, and we would know who came first and then give them a first chance. In addition, stakeholders do not have to bring photocopies of their submissions. They were able to just scan the QR code and access the Bill itself. They were also given an option to comment clause by clause over the Bill and they also accessed the explainer that this Honourable House had published. If they had any general comments, they were able to give them. This made the process seamless and paperless. I want to laud this young man called Alan Kimani because that is how we should grow our technology and use our energies as young people. I challenge young people in this country."
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