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    "id": 601910,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/601910/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "We have a Treaty Making and Ratification Act. The Cabinet Secretary (CS), and anyone in the Executive, who is in charge of pushing forward such treaties, should give Parliament its due space in the decision-making and the constitutional structure of our Government. Parliament should debate and see if Members support it or not before it comes into force. If that is not done, we will end up with a scenario where a majority of companies that do business in Kenya will declare zero profits and taxes in Kenya and pretend they are Mauritian companies, and thus deny us revenue. We cannot on one hand try to do good things to increase our tax collection to a level of self-dependence, yet on the other hand we are also coming up with treaties that will allow a lot of tax avoidance, and even as we look at global competitiveness."
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