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    "id": 655854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Miscellaneous Fees and Levies Bill (National Assembly Bill No.30 of 2015) be now read a Second Time. This was one of the Bills that were submitted by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for National Treasury in the Budget last year. Unfortunately, this Bill has stayed since September, last year. It is a very important Bill. It is part of the pieces of legislation that were to be passed in tandem with the Budget proposal that the CS read to the House. After the customs law became part of the East African Community Customs Management Act in 2004, and having proposed a standalone Excise Duty Bill, 2015 which we passed, it was found necessary to create the Miscellaneous Fees and Levies Bill to cater for levies and fees which were anchored in the Customs and Excise Act which this House repealed when we came with the Excise Bill, 2015. The moment we harmonised the Customs and Excise Bill into one law called “Excise Bill, 2015”, there were certain levies and miscellaneous fees which were left hanging. It is now prudent that we create these miscellaneous fees and levies to cater for those laws. That is why this Bill provides for the legal basis for the charging of the import declaration fee which is already there and the railway development fee which was introduced in the previous Budget. Certain percentage of this fee was used in the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) that we expect to reach Malaba. These fees had no legal basis after the repeal of the Customs and Excise Act. This law specifically caters for those. The export levies are to be charged on hides and skins, scrap metals of iron and steel in order to encourage value addition in our country. So, even the levies and the fees which were to be charged on hides and skins and scrap metal were left out. We felt as a country that we must introduce some extra levies on scrap metal in order to encourage more investors to do value addition on our products before they leave the country. 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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