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    "id": 808272,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to support this Bill. This Bill is very important because it addresses the Big Four Agenda. That is the import of prosecuting this Bill outside the normal traditional way of doing it under the Finance Bill. The Finance Bill will take time. Therefore, the Members should see fit to support it. This Bill has very important amendments, which will make the Big Four Agenda be implemented in a very simple way. It is amending several tax Acts. During our deliberations, we had an opportunity of engaging the public through invitations to respond to the proposals in the Bill. We received several memoranda. We invited key stakeholders who appeared before us. Some of them supported and some came up with the amendments in view of what the Bill is proposing to do. Some of the stakeholders who appeared before us included the KenyaWildlife Conservation Association. They came with new proposals to exempt VAT on conservation fee because they felt that there is discrimination in terms of the treatment on VAT taxation when it comes to conservancies and national parks. They also had proposals on Stamp Duty relating to conservancies in Kenya. We also had the Institute of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK). As we go towards building several units to ensure that, at least, Kenyans assess housing cheaply and affordably, there was an indication that currently, property valuers in Kenya are many, but the ones who are allowed for purposes of Stamp Duty are Government valuers. It was a surprise that in a country like Kenya, we have only 44 valuers in the whole country. In fact, if we were to have one valuer per county, we would not be able to get valuers in all the counties given that majority of them might be in Nairobi where the bulk of work is. Therefore, we would have several counties up to around 10, who would not have Government valuers. The import of this is that if we have them do valuation, it will take a lot of time. If the Government is building many units to make Kenyans The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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