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    "id": 482127,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/482127/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Manga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2055,
        "legal_name": "Shadrack Roger Mwita Manga",
        "slug": "shadrack-roger-mwita-manga"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. The Finance Bill is an engine for the Government to drive its economy and its business of serving the people. This Bill seeks to amend many clauses in the financial laws in order to make it easy for businessmen to run their businesses. I wonder why the tax collectors sometimes become merciless and very hard to people. They do not work together with the taxpayers. Without the businesses running, they will not collect any taxes. I also want to cite this monster called tax compliance certificate, which has become a problem. Sometimes, KRA makes mistakes on taxation. When you go to get the tax compliance certificate for you to get a contract or do business, sometimes they decline and tell you to go and bring Kshs10,000 for them to give you a certificate. Corruption is introduced here. That certificate lasts for six months only. They have now made it better and it lasts for a year. But many business people have been discouraged to run businesses. Sometimes, you have a very small tax problem and they refuse you to carry on with your business by refusing to give you a tax compliance certificate. If a contractor owes KRA some money, he cannot get that money unless he continues to do more business in contracting. If that is the case, then the compliance certificate should only be there to enable KRA to know that, for instance, hon. Manga, has not complied with the tax provisions. Therefore, they give you the certificate and next year, they make sure that he pays. If I do not have the money, they cannot sell my body. If they refuse me to trade and the tax they are asking for comes from my trade, then they The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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