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    "id": 846683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/846683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Let me talk about Clause 45. I want the Members of the House to support the Committee in this. It increases the penalty for late payment of any tax to 20 per cent. It means, therefore, that if your constituency office manager fails to remit the Pay as You Earn (PAYE) of your staff on the due day and takes it the next day, you will be charge automatically 20 per cent of the tax of all the salaries of your staff. That money is not provided by the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC). Therefore, it will have to come from somewhere. You cannot penalise some of those mistakes, especially because Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) does not refund money overpayment to people. I concur with Hon. Mulu. We cannot make money from inefficiency or penalties. We should encourage people to comply rather than put punitive interest rates on them. Eventually, they will all become defaulters. I am happy because the Committee has taken note of that. I wish to have that reduced or to be time-based. The KRA can charge a certain amount per month, so that the longer you stay, the more you pay. If you delay to pay by one day, you should not be penalised a whole 20 per cent because there was a technical error in the office and the cheque was not written to the KRA or the system was not working, and the i tax could not accept the money."
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