{"id":199854,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/199854/?format=json","text_counter":381,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. J.M. Mutiso","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":273,"legal_name":"John Mutinda Mutiso","slug":"mutinda-mutiso"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. First of all, I would like to congratulate the Minister. I stand here as a member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. I would like these sentiments to go into the annals of this House. We need to have a paradigm shift between the Executive and the Legislature. It has been a contest between the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Minister for Finance. We have sat in this House and the Committee Rooms endlessly. I think we need a paradigm shift in terms of the manner the Treasury imposes taxes and also the public relations of the Minister's office. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, today I would say that the Government has lost huge chunks of votes for Kibaki kuendelea because of its insensitive tax proposals and measures. Today as I speak, more than 88 companies---"}