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    "id": 977391,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/977391/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "2013/2014, when we were doing 19 per cent; it is now at 16.5 percent. When you look at the Organization for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, they have gotten to 40 or 50 per cent of their GDP. The informal sector, as the Chairperson has elucidated on, is the one that is creating jobs. However, what are we doing to ensure that we bring the informal sector into the tax bracket? The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has failed on this, partially because of the rigid legal regime which requires startups to pay tax to the Government. It is extremely difficult to pay tax to the Government. We need to simplify these procedures and offer incentives to Kenyans, so that they can see value in them paying taxes. Kenyans have become ambivalent in doing so because of the huge corruption of mega projects in the Government - the Arror and Kimwarer dams, the NYS scandal--- Which one is the latest? Kenyans are even losing count of the scandals. Therefore, that cannot encourage Kenyans to actually pay taxes. We need to do something about it, because what we are seeing is a regime where some of the taxes that are being imposed upon Kenyans – like presumptive tax – are overtaxing the people who are already paying tax without necessarily creating a new tax base."
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