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    "id": 577860,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/577860/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
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    "content": "Market Protocol for Free Movement of Goods and Services (CMPFMGS) by President Kibaki in 2009. All these pieces of legislation in support of common trade in East African region have been hurting this country because they were no mechanisms on how to trade both internally and externally without a streamlined Excise Duty Act. In Kenya, we have been losing a lot of ethanol products to the Ugandan market because we did not have a streamlined way in which the distributors of ethanol to East African countries. But this was done under the guise of CMPFMGS, the East African Community Treaty and the East African Single Customs Union in terms of payment of excise levy. In the end, we only had Kenyan companies registered to export to Uganda but the Ugandan companies that imported from this county were not registered hence heavy loss of revenue in terms of excise duty to this country. Secondly, when you are in western Kenya and you approach an area like Bungoma and Busia and you are on a network like Safaricom, you seem to be controlled or hosted by the MTN network. There was no clear cut provision on how this East African Treaty Single Customs Protocol, Common Market Protocol for Free of Movement of Goods and Services within that region could enable Safaricom obtain its necessary share of revenue from MTN because you are roaming, but in essence, you are still in your country. However, with the streamlined tax measures that are contained in this Bill, we are going to have our companies getting a lot of revenue through such network platforms. Immediately you reach Bungoma and you cross to Malava, you are still in your country, but you are roaming. Who benefits? It is MTN which benefits in terms of the excise duty payable. I have looked at the Bill critically and it gives us a structure like that of Brazil. Brazil is the leading producer of ethanol in the world. They mix their ethanol with jet fuel to fly their aeroplanes. They mix the ethanol with normal petrol which is low cost but attracts high tax income payments that assist to grow an economy. In Kenya, the cigarette and alcohol industries are the ones supporting the Free Primary Education Programme. If we have streamlined measures separating excise duty from the rest of the legislation that KRA administer to be independent, then we will increase the income that is collected across the country hence provide better services for the people of this country. With those few remarks, I beg that once we pass this Bill, we should ask the Government – the Leader of the Majority Party is here – to provide free secondary school education because we will have enough money to support the funding of the system. I support the Bill."
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