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    "id": 464043,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "encourage hon. Members to read and propose amendments. My committee will also bring some additional amendments to the Bill, so that we make the tribunal a body that Kenyans and the taxpayers will have confidence in, a body that we will have confidence in and to which we will lodge our claim. There is a proposal that if you are lodging a claim, you must pay Kshs20,000. In my Committee’s analysis, we did say that somehow that punishes the claimant; we said that we may have to re-look at this at the Committee Stage. If my appeal eventually succeeds, I have to get a refund or even make it a free exercise, or make everybody to pay so that it is neither the taxpayer nor the Commissioner alone. In this Bill, my Committee has considered and said--- We actually must have people who have knowledge in addition to having degree and other requirements; we must have people who understand the business itself. For example, in the insurance sector; in addition to having a degree, you must understand it. It may be the insurance sector, banking sector or manufacturing sector; this is because tax has very practical elements about our lives. I would want to urge hon. Members to support this Bill to move to the next stage, and prepare to make this Bill better in the Committee Stage through amendments. I want to encourage hon. Members to bring amendments that will improve the Bill. My Committee will bring envisaged amendments; we have considered them and are going to move them at the right time. I want to thank my Committee; we have had several meetings and I want to thank them. I want to encourage this House that we support this Bill to the next stage. I now move that this Bill be now read a Second time. I would want to request my sitting neighbour, who happens to be the Leader of Majority Party to second the Bill."
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