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    "id": 430158,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/430158/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "that almost 80 per cent of new jobs came from the SMEs. I would have expected the BPS to give us more information on this particular sector. While still on the same topic, we are told that the tax base is going to be widened and the major area is going to be the informal sector. One wonders how one is going to tax it in the absence of any data or information on this sector. Maybe we are not being told everything. The absence of information with respect to this important economic growth and development sector could be construed that the authorities do not have any information on this sector. Obviously, that would impeach on any plans for enhancement of revenue collection as we are told in the BPS. In passing, though the BPS talks about low absorption of resources or funds, it does not give any solutions or way forward as to how this should be sorted out or how the bottlenecks that create this low absorption are going to be handled. Finally, I am a little bit concerned because the BPS is given to us at a time when it is impossible for county governments to include what is in the BPS into their county fiscal strategy paper. It is important that we look at one fiscal policy, but the way it is, it would appear that county governments will run their own fiscal policy, the Central Government will run its own fiscal policy and this is likely to create a lot of fiscal confusion in our country. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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