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    "id": 811194,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/811194/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Musimba",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "As a colleague said, our mandate in the House is to ensure that everything that we pass is in the interest of the people of the Republic of Kenya. Taxes, as was ably raised by Hon. Ichung’wah, are very sensitive, especially when loopholes are created. I will take that word ‘loophole’ back. A scenario is created where corporate Kenya can come out and say that in the next 90 days or even in just 30 days, they will collect money from the public that might not necessarily end up in the National Treasury. This is a very salient thing because we report our taxes on a yearly basis and pay anticipatory taxes on a quarterly basis. That is the same period unto which some of these levies, which are going to take effect immediately, will come through. I know there are a lot of things to review and I welcome them. However, I want to urge caution that we should not pass this particular Act because the National Treasury is already mandated to collect money. I do not think anyone will go to court if the same tax he was paying in the last financial year was imposed in the next 90 days."
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