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    "id": 808295,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808295/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "So, even as we collect taxes, it is important for us to address the issue of corruption, which provides opportunities for the taxes to be mis-applied. If we can do that, we will encourage Kenyans to pay more taxes. Kenyans keep saying that they are highly taxed at about 35 per cent. People in some developed countries pay as much tax as 60 per cent of their income, but they never complain because they have free education, healthcare and most of the facilities are available. So, the 40 per cent that remains is for their leisure. In that case, if taxes were properly applied for the intended purposes, Kenyans can see a kind of return and value for their money. They will then pay more money to the Kenyan Government and they will never complain. This is exactly what happened during the regime of Hon. Mwai Kibaki. Kenyans paid tax when we moved tax generation from Kshs200 billion, and by the time he left, we were almost at about Kshs1.2 trillion."
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