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    "id": 955009,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is also a proposal to register the business cluster of people called consolidators. Remember when the President visited the new terminal, there was an issue in terms of clearing of goods at the port. The small business people are not able to fill a container when they are importing. So, what happens is that they come together and fill one container. The people who do that are called “consolidators”. This Bill has brought those consolidators into registration, so that they help consolidate and bring goods together. This will lessen the hustle of clearing and checking the goods and even paying tax given that the Government is moving to a new way of doing clearance of goods. Checking of standards of the goods which are imported will be done at the country of supply. In fact, this Bill is proposing that that will be done at the country of supply, so that when they arrive, it is a matter of just scanning and being cleared instead of waiting for long for clearance and making the country really unattractive. The Bill is also proposing to repeal sub-section 2(a) of the Accountants Act. In the last Finance Bill, there was an amendment by an accountants’ institute to ensure that the accountants are regulated the way lawyers and engineers are regulated and to make the accounting profession more feasible and respectable. There is an attempt to reverse that amendment. After discussions and stakeholders engagement, the Committee will move an amendment and replace it with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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