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    "id": 602790,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/602790/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Tax Procedures Bill, 2015. There is a very interesting aspect in this Bill regarding the security on property for unpaid taxes. Always, Kenyans with the ability to pay taxes have been evading payment of tax. When you look at Clause 40 of the Bill, it provides that where a taxpayer, being the owner of a land and a building in Kenya fails to pay tax by the due date, the Commissioner may direct the Land Registrar, in writing, that the land or the building is security for tax to the extent of the unpaid tax. This is how we will catch tax evaders. Senior businessmen in this country forge records of audited accounts to the extent that they declare huge losses yet their companies are performing very well. Their properties are registered at the Registrar of Lands. If we enact this Bill, we will save this country from such tax evaders."
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