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    "id": 245055,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenneth",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Finance",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Kenneth",
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    "content": " Mr. Chairman, Sir, thank you for clarifying that. That was going to be my opening remarks. What is on the table are provisional measures which will be discussed extensively in the Finance Bill. I was going to appeal to my colleagues to deal with the issues today and conclude them. Mr. Chairman, Sir, taxation is very important. Any measure that goes towards it should be taken seriously because this developing country requires taxes for development. Indeed, compliance is so crucial! I would like to appeal to the people who ensure compliance to do their job, so that this country could get the much needed taxes to develop. Mr. Chairman, Sir, a lot has been said about the Fuel Levy. I also think that we have not been realistic in whatever we have said about the Fuel Levy. An example was given by Dr. Khalwale this afternoon. But when you look at the figures he gave, they did not add up. I am assuming that anybody travelling to a very far point of this country will spend between 150 litres to 200 litres every weekend. So, if you are talking of 200 litres to go to Mwingi South, the actual extra cost will be Kshs600 for that trip. If you translate that into four weeks, assuming that you go every weekend, it is Kshs2,400. If you translate it to one year, it will come to about Kshs29,000. Knowing your car, you were paying about Kshs18,000 as road licence fee. So, the actual cost on your car is Kshs11,000 a year. That is assuming you do not travel out of the country at any one week in that year."
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