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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we say that we are putting money aside and we now want extra money, we forget that there is tax that is still to be collected. Earlier this afternoon the issue of tax not collected came up. I advise the Minister to kindly ask the revenue authorities to provide a list of people whose tax has not been paid. I was told this afternoon that somebody said that Mastermind Tobacco has not paid tax amounting to Kshs12 billion, while somebody else said that the company has not paid tax amounting to Kshs6 billion. We would like to know how much tax is not being paid, how that will affect our budget and whether we can go and collect this tax. I know there are certain cases where even the court has given the approval. There is a case where the court had given consent for attachment of some goods from a very large organization but nothing has been done there. Coming back to the issue of Vision 2030, as I said earlier on, the budget process is a process where we set aside resources to meet our vision. Our Vision 2030, together with the Maputo Declaration, is that we would spend about 15 per cent of our budget---"
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