{"id":17297,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/17297/?format=json","text_counter":433,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Kenyatta","speaker_title":"The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance","speaker":{"id":168,"legal_name":"Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta","slug":"uhuru-kenyatta"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have had cases where books of accounts have been kept in languages other than official languages; English or Kiswahili, to make audit of financial accounts of taxpayers difficult. To address this challenge, I propose to amend the Income Tax Act to require taxpayers to keep their records in English or Kiswahili and in Kenya Shillings."}