{"id":434446,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/434446/?format=json","text_counter":387,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Washiali","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":151,"legal_name":"Benjamin Jomo Washiali","slug":"benjamin-washiali"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I wanted, first of all, to thank the Chair, hon. Langat, for the clarification he has given on the taxes that were initially put on sugarcane. I also want to add that already companies are levying VAT on sugarcane. This is what has contributed to debit income that the farmers have been earning. Could the Chairman go a notch higher and insist that the VAT that has already been deducted, now that he has clarified that it was not supposed to have been levied, be refunded to farmers?"}