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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Just to remind my brother, Hon. Barasa, I am a Catholic and our God is a just God. If you make a mistake and repent, you will be forgiven. Even if you are a bishop, if you sin once, you can still seek for His forgiveness. I support this Bill but one of the issues that I really want to start with is about taxation. We need to ask ourselves why we must tax. As Hon. Makali Mulu indicated, we had done away with the expenditure. Now we have to look for ways to collect money that will sufficiently cater for the expenditure. As a country, we must be very careful that the taxes that are collected go to the projections and budgetary provisions that we have already agreed upon. I do not know how to call it. I am a Chair of a Committee. You budget for purposes of transforming the country and increasing the revenue through that budgetary development. We were told that there is a supplementary budget which is coming. I hope that the supplementary budget will not touch on the development budgets so that we develop this country, create job opportunities and collect more for this country. It is better for us to start thinking. I know the Vice-Chair is here. We have the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. How I wish that they could use some of their money for foreign trips to go to other countries and see other tax regimes. I had an opportunity to visit Australia through the 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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