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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "very expensive and most of the farmers, especially in my constituency, stopped concentrating on poultry farming because poultry feeds are very expensive. I want to say that if you look at vegetable farming, I agree that things like seeds, herbicides and pesticides are very expensive. VAT makes it very costly for small scale farmers to concentrate on farming. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I come from a county which is really known for growing a lot of green tea in this country. If you look at the Value Added Tax Act now, you will find that it actually taxes unprocessed green leaf from the farmers. Effectively, it says that all the farmers in this country who are growing tea were even expected to have registered for VAT and even acquire the ETR machines. This is something which is impractical because many farmers will even resort to uprooting tea to avoid making VAT returns. So, this Bill is timely because it will remove the requirement that unprocessed green leaf which is delivered to the factory be taxable."
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