{"id":689053,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/689053/?format=json","text_counter":166,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Midiwo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":184,"legal_name":"Washington Jakoyo Midiwo","slug":"jakoyo-midiwo"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I will be brief. The reason as to why this amendment will be very wrong for our economy is that you can walk into a motor vehicle showroom, as a school and buy a bus. The following day, the same bus will be sold as used. Even if you go to pay for the excess VAT, you will pay at the rate of a used car while the person who bought it 24 hours earlier was exempted from paying VAT at the rate of a new car. This House has a duty to help the State collect revenue. That will be a very wrong loophole to open."}