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"content": " On a point of order, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Yes, Leader of the Majority Party."
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg your indulgence in relation to the business listed as Order No. 17, the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 11 of 2025), and request that I stand down this Bill for today. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning is yet to finalise its Report. We had agreed with the Chairman of the Committee that they need to establish the exact quantum of what is sought to be exempted and the beneficiaries of those exemptions. We also want to ascertain that they are actual investments that have been made in the country in relation to the exemptions that have been sought through this Bill. Therefore, I beg your indulgence that we step down that business from the Order Paper today until such a time that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will finalise that Report."
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"content": "Thank you. Yes, Leader of the Minority Party."
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party. I do not want to call this Bill dangerous, but it is very important. It is giving exemptions of Ksh14.9 billion, which is almost Ksh15 billion, yet we are unable to raise money for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). We have fought over money for the NG-CDF the whole afternoon. Someone has brought a Bill that wants to give exemptions of Ksh15 billion. I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that this Bill needs to be scrutinised by the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning properly to know whether these investments have happened. If they happened, where are they, and what value do they give Kenyans? The Bill is not only trying to give blanket exemptions but also backdating them to 2024. This House had passed a Bill earlier giving them exemptions, but now they want them backdated to 2024. Why? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Thank you. Yes, Hon. Atandi."
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"speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, I would also like to support the standing down of this Bill. I presented a Report on the Floor of this House from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the implications of exemptions on our revenue-raising efforts. It says we lose about Ksh300 billion annually from our ordinary revenues because of exemptions. Therefore, it will be bad for this House if we continue to do the same, knowing very well that we are unable to raise revenues. We are even projecting to raise about Ksh2.8 trillion this coming financial year, but we cannot do it with these exemptions. I beseech the House that, going forward, we should never allow exemptions that cannot be explained. Therefore, I support the Leader of the Majority The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Party and Hon. Junet in stating that these exemptions must be thoroughly scrutinised before they can be discussed on the Floor of the House."
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"content": "We will step down the Bill, Hon. Kimani. We are not debating it. I have given the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning the first chance. I will come to you, Hon. Caroli."
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