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    "id": 577792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Excise Duty Bill, 2015 be now read a Second Time. After harmonising customs legislation in the region and in the East African Community Customs Union (EACCU), there is need for enacting separate excise duty legislation. Our East African Community partners have a separate legislation for Excise Duty. Kenya has continued, for a long time, to use the Customs and Excise Act for the administration of Excise Duty. Our East African partner states have been urging Kenya to create a separate legislation and that is why we have, today, a new Excise Duty Bill, 2015. The Bill contains Excise Duty charged on goods which have negative externalities as well as other goods and services which are being charged Excise Duty for purposes of raising more revenue to finance Government expenditure. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what does this Bill do, in the context it is before this House? It proposes to require persons not to manufacture or to import excisable goods, or supply such services unless they are licensed by the Commissioner of Domestic Taxes, or are registered to supply those services and goods. This Bill also provides for the procedure in the application, issuance, suspension and cancellation of any licence given by the Commissioner. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) - over many years in realizing revenue collection - has widened the gap, the net and sealed all revenue leakages. Kenyans might not be aware that when the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government took over the reign of power in 2002, the KRA was collecting close to about Kshs150 billion. Twelve years down the line, the KRA has surpassed the Kshs1 trillion mark. They deserve to be congratulated. What they have done has given us the independence. A country where 90 per cent of its Budget is financed by its own resources is a country that has economic independence. In order to prevent revenue leakage, this Bill provides that---"
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