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    "id": 955051,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/955051/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Hiyo . The maize flour. Moving it to a tax bracket where it will be higher and the Government is making extra money from the flour, would be very wrong. We should be fighting to move to a level, like other developed nations though we may not be having the capacities, where when you go to any hotel, you are given ugali for free, then you can buy other things. I will be expecting that the amendments by this Committee should protect the mwananchi. There are many other issues here that are good, but I will only make a statement on one, namely, withholding tax. I was a student of economics up to the university level and not any further than that. Whereas formerly you had said that the firm that was supplied with goods pays 6 per cent, that was withholding a lot of money. I support you in reducing it to 2 per cent. We would even make it much lighter by reducing it to 1 per cent. I am sure you borrowed that from other developed economies. Let us not even make it 2 per cent because that is to prevent the flow of money which we want in the economy. Without much ado, I support the Bill. We shall be looking forward to making the amendments. Thank you."
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