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    "id": 579059,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/579059/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "From the outset, I want to say that there are quite a number of progressive clauses in this particular Bill. The first one is that on Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for appointing agents to collect Value Added Tax (VAT). It is something that we have not seen in Kenya before. It will be unique and good. It will widen the ability for KRA to widen its tax net and bring in taxes at source as opposed to waiting for the people to remit taxes. That is very important. But I want to say as a word of caution, we have to be very careful with which companies, or entities, are given the authority to collect taxes on behalf of KRA. They have to be very credible institutions, otherwise we might end up with certain companies which we depended on very much in collecting taxes on behalf KRA, going under midway, or three-quarter way, during the year, and all the taxes, which otherwise would have been revenue to the Government, is lost."
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