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    "id": 602787,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/602787/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ngetich",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to the Tax Procedures Bill 2015. From the outset, I support the Bill because Kenya is a developing country, which relies heavily on local revenue for provision of services. If this revenue is not collected in form of taxes, then certain services are going to suffer for lack of resources. Having been a colony, we inherited many laws that were from our masters, and since then these laws have been amended to conform to our needs. Some of them are no longer tenable. Therefore, this Tax Procedures Bill is timely for us to have a very effective way of ensuring that taxes are collected. As mentioned in the Bill, it is very important to communicate to taxpayers. It will make the taxpayers pay, especially if they are informed of the services that the money collected from taxes finance. I know of an organisation in Karen that refused to pay taxes to the former City Council because they were not receiving services. The amounts collected can increase if there is communication between the taxpayers and the tax collector. I want to take this opportunity to hail the KRA for introducing i-tax, and ensuring that payments are made through banks. This minimises the corruption that we have always been seeing when officers go out to collect taxes from business people Regarding the penalties, I am aware that in other statutory deductions, there are penalties when there is a delay. Penalties are not meant to be punitive. They are meant to instil discipline The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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