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    "id": 808354,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808354/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samson Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": " When I talk about corruption, there is something interesting that happened on Monday in China. A fellow who is a former deputy mayor was condemned to death and all his properties were reverted back to the Government when he was found guilty of having received bribes. Therefore, we need more punitive measures so that this appetite for corruption and impunity will be abated. I am saying so because nowadays even as we talk about taxes, we also have to talk about protecting the same money. Nowadays, the youth of this country would rather take a certificate or a diploma in procurement rather than courses that will help this country. They know once you get a diploma in procurement, you will get a job in any Government entity of course you will become a millionaire overnight. We have to seal all the corruption loopholes that our monies vanish to. Lastly, just like voting where it is one man one vote, taxation is about one man, one shilling. In the distribution of the same taxes that we are receiving, the people who give the most get the least. The people who give the least get the most. We have to sit down as a country, especially as leaders and stop this nonsense of punishing the same people who pay high taxes and receive the least when it comes to sharing the national cake. I am talking as a Member of Parliament where we have the most taxpayers. I suppose I have the population and the higher revenues that are collected by the Exchequer. I come from a constituency of about 300,000 people in population and over 120,000 are voters. But when it comes to receiving NG-CDF in my constituency or my county of Murang’a receiving public money for development, we receive less money than some of the counties. Some of the constituencies have less population and therefore less in terms of taxpayers and less in terms of the money the Government receives. We have to look at equitability formula of this country so that we can keep putting more catalyst on people who generate more and not punish them. If, for example, a certain belt is known for generating enough revenue because of the stimulated economic endeavours, it will only benefit the country if we support those belts and those areas so that the country can ultimately benefit by having more revenue. I want to implore the National Treasury to widen the net. We see them casting the net deeper instead of the casting the net wider. They continue taxing more where it is being taxed. There is a huge population of over 65 per cent of informal sector of this country that KRA has found almost impossible to tax. They need to have more foresight and bring a lot of technology in terms of collecting taxes so that we can cast the net wider to the people who do not pay taxes instead of digging deeper. Lastly, the amendments that will be posted by the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning is very timely so that we do not punish the people who manufacture drugs because if we say we are zero-rating other than exempting, of course the monies that they get from KRA will be passed over to the consumers and the customers who are already overburdened. With those many remarks, I support."
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