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    "id": 466731,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njenga",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kigo Njenga",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I particularly look at Section 114, where the Commissioner will form a committee which will have an advisory role. In this advisory role, one is given a chance to be treated equally. Reading between the lines, the offender is given a chance to accept his offences and pay taxes and this will reduce a lot of litigations which have made the Government of Kenya lose a lot of money. The punishment to be meted against the directors and others who help companies to evade tax is also a deterrent factor. It will be a deterrent for failing to pay tax and the people will comply. The Constitution states that everyone, every State officer must pay tax. With that amendment, I am sure the AFCO people will pay taxes and then we can be able to raise their renumerations and make them live much better lives. Those who are doing illegal businessess using goods obtained from AFCO will come into the tax paying net. I am also concerned about winning and betting. We have had a lot of winning and betting going on in our country where people just go home with their money, especially the foreigners. Even those who bet and win in our country, they earn revenue like anyone else. Once this is brought on board, a 20 per cent final tax is levied and no other tax over and above that. I find that quite very positive in that everybody will own Kenya. Everybody will feel part and parcel of this country. Those who come here and bet and win and go away, will leave some revenue for us. The East African Development Bank, being raised to the status of the World Bank, the IMF and the ADB and giving the member States powers to even sue this bank, as a matter of fact, they cannot nationalise the assets of the ADB. This gives this bank a wider chance to participate fully. It gives this bank safety from political risks which have made institutions close down. All in all, when I look at this amendment from a holistic approach, I find that it is going to manage the tax and the finance position of our country and raise it to a higher level and Kenyans will go to the system of good order and modernise their institutions and live much better lives. These amendments will help us to attain our Vision 2030. I, therefore, support."
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