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    "id": 434392,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "we were supposed to deal with basic items consumed by ordinary wananchi . The Committee proposes that those consuming such luxury goods should pay VAT. Item 45 - This is for the reason that this deals with insecticides generally. The reason we are proposing a deletion is that it has already been provided for by the main Act. It is already provided for under Item 31 of the main Act, VAT Act, 2013. This would have been a repetition and I have explained to the sponsor of the Bill. This is just to clean the Bill. Item 46 - This was dealing with ambulances and the reason is that the Committee felt that if we are exempting services like providing ambulances, it would touch the common mwananchi . But this is a service provided by the most expensive hospitals and normally we pay through insurance. In public hospitals, the Government provides this service and so there is no need for this exemption. Item 47 - This again is the most expensive bread which even hon. Ng’ongo himself said he does not consume because of the price. So we agreed that we delete it. Items 48 and 49 - For these two items, the Committee realized that there are so many parts of this country that are not within the national grid. Usually the Government provides rural electrification to areas where we have the national grid; but we have many areas where people still rely on solar panels. The common mwananchi buys solar panels and batteries. That is what they use to light their houses. Therefore, we thought that it would touch the mwananchi in a positive way if we exempted these items as they normally use them. The Committee was unanimous. On the raw materials for pharmaceuticals, in the VAT Act 2013, we exempted all the final pharmaceutical products like medicines; unfortunately when you exempt the final product, it means that the manufacturers are not registered for VAT. They cannot claim the VAT on input. That input VAT becomes a cost and, therefore, stakeholders--- I mentioned the two doctors in the House because they came to me. It was very unanimously agreed that we need to exempt the raw materials because we exempted the final product. That will save the sector. In fact, when the stakeholders came---"
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