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    "id": 601951,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/601951/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangwe",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "When you look at our Budget for 2015/2016, it is a Kshs2.1 trillion Budget. That means we must collect tax. The taxman today is held at ransom by the taxpayers, and he may not realise the money or taxes he wants. Instead, a few issues arise which make it impossible or difficult for him to collect taxes. When you look at the reasons the Bill is trying to address, one is the concept that we must collect tax, so as to be self-sustaining and also sustain the economy. My colleagues have alluded to the Kibaki and other past regimes since Independence. We have really done well in tax collection. The only thing that has happened is generational change. When you look at perception of issues in 1963, and how business people used to trade then and the businessmen of today, there is that generational change where technology has taken effect. The businessmen of today are very scholarly and knowledgeable. So, the concept of tax avoidance comes about. It comes about because these business people now understand business, and want to make more profit for themselves; that makes them to go round and round and circumvent the taxman procedures. It is important to sharpen the taxman, so that he is on top of these business people and collect tax."
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