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    "id": 975573,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I support the Budget Policy Statement Report by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. As the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, we presented our report to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which is very clear. When the Estimates come in April, we want a very close relationship between the BPS and the Estimates. I remember in this year’s Budget, there was no connection between the BPS and the Estimates. As we presented to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, there are some reallocations that we did and we expected the Committee to take on our reallocations. Instead of the Budget and Appropriations Committee taking our reallocations, they decided to move them elsewhere. I believe this time the Budget and Appropriations Committee will not make the same mistake because there is wisdom when a committee reallocates resources. I want to talk about what we presented to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We gave a proposal to assist the KRA to raise more resources. Recently, in the Finance Bill, the National Treasury came up with the Turnover Tax. Collecting the Turnover Tax from small businesses will be very difficult. We gave a proposal, which I hope the Treasury will take on with KRA to assist small businesses through giving them a simple point of sale system that will be connected to KRA. It will be easy for KRA to know what each of the businesses have sold in a month. It will be easy for them to collect the Turnover Tax just the way rental income is 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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