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    "id": 602779,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/602779/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "The Bill will give us opportunity to embrace efficiency and effectiveness. The process of tax collection, remittance and registration into the tax systems is very important for all the players. Efficiency will enable many people to participate in tax registration and remittance. But there are laborious stages that people have to go through to register as tax payers and make claims when they need to do it and obtain registration. So, we should support this harmonised approach and give it a creative approach where everyone is happy to participate in the process .One way of attaining this efficiency is sensitising people about it. Make tax collection, remittance and compliance to be one-off curriculum in the schools, so that Kenyan children grow up knowing that they have a responsibility, and not a punishment, to be part of the players in revenue collection . This Bill should address our participation in the East African Community (EAC) and other economic communities. We need to discipline ourselves and participate effectively in this East African region. If we have tax collection systems that are friendly to all the countries and are efficient, we can embrace the East African countries within the same rhythm, momentum and spirit. Then we will have more people participating in it. It will be easy for people to comply, and so people will not evade it. With incentives, we will attract investors. Many investors would rather do business in other countries like Mauritius and elsewhere than here because of too many bottlenecks and laborious procedures in registering as a taxpayer and as a businessman. If we can reduce some of these and collapse them into this harmonised law, then we will attract more investments. I would like to support this and at the same time plead with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to step up tax collection and embrace this new law and procedures. Kenyans are business oriented people and we have a lot of business activities happening. All of us could contribute to the National Treasury through tax collection. I am just wondering what is happening in the counties in terms of tax and revenue collection. It is like some functions have stalled. You are told that there is no money yet you see opportunities for collecting revenue everywhere. No one is making an attempt to collect this revenue. Let us set targets in the area of tax collection, put incentives in place and educate everyone. We should open new avenues and harmonise procedures, so that people do not have to go through difficulty and laborious procedures."
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