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    "id": 429065,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "increased allocation to the counties, it is important that this House fast-tracks approval of the remaining reports, so that as we allocate money in the coming year, we will be talking about the latest audited reports. The other thing in this Bill to consider is the timing. Today is 22nd April, 2014 and if you look at the calendar, we expect itemized budgets by around 30th April. This means we have only about a week plus to allow the counties and the Ministries to also submit their detailed budgets. We are a bit late and this calls for proper timing in terms of approving this Revenue Bill. The other thing we must realize, and it has been said by my fellow Members of Parliament, is the issue of costing the function. When you read this Bill, it talks about incremental budgeting. What we are doing is looking at last year’s budget and on the basis of that, adding some percentage and assuming that revenue will increase by the same percentage. This is a very dangerous way of budgeting. I want to agree with those who are saying that the Transitional Authority needs to do their work. It is unfortunate we are talking about un-costed functions almost two years after we started this serious work of devolution."
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