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    "id": 952111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let me thank the Chair and the Committee again for that amendment. Let me also take this opportunity to speak to the Office of the Attorney-General (AG) and those who sit at the national Treasury. The import of some of the proposals that are brought to this House is very suspect. You would wonder why a Government officer would be proposing that the Commissioner-General of KRA be refrained from assessing or recovering penalties on taxes from a segment of business. We must tell public officers when they have business interests in some of those segments. There is a particular segment they are calling the growth segment in the security exchange. Why would you stop the Commissioner-General from assessing taxes and penalties from just one segment unless there are particular interests? I want to thank the Chair and the Committee for being vigilant. We must ensure that we do not protect particular industries or people. In line with the Constitution, everybody must pay taxes. Nobody should be exempted. We must support KRA to be able to raise revenue from all segments, be it in the CMA or the small and medium businesses. There are small businesses – and I say this as a small trader – that would warrant being in the growth sector, but are not listed in the securities exchange. Therefore, if you stop the Commissioner from assessing those that are listed in the securities exchange and you allow the Commissioner to assess those others out here, then you will be disadvantaging those that are not in the exchange market. You will actually be making the trading platform very unfair to those that are not listed. Therefore, I want to support the Committee."
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