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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, what are we doing in this amendment? If you look at it, we are trying to amend the First Schedule to the Value-Added Tax Act in Paragraph 146 of Part I by deleting the words “12 months after this date” and substituting therefore the words “12 months from the date of commencement of this Act”. That is what we are doing in this small amendment. What we want to do as Parliament is straightforward. Therefore, I do not want to belabour the point. We should not take much time. I request Hon. Junet Mohamed to second. After seconding, we can have about three contributions before we call the Mover to reply and go ahead. I am just making a suggestion."
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"content": " Thank you. I stand to second the Value-Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.11 of 2025). This is a very small amendment that is rectifying what happened in the Tax (Amendment) Act that we passed in December. It is very controversial, but also a necessity because it is helping manufacturing by big investors who have put faith and decided to take the risk of investing in our country. It is part of the incentives that are being offered to big investors who have invested huge sums of money so that they can put up industries in our country. As you know, the manufacturing sector is not doing very well in the country at the moment. It is at 3 per cent. With those kinds of incentives, we expect manufacturers to be enticed to invest more money to create jobs for our people. With those few remarks, I second."
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"content": "Yes, Hon. Murugara. What would you like to say?"
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"content": " Thank you. I rise to support this Value- Added Tax (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 11 of 2025). As explained by the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, it is a small Bill, but it has great impact on what it makes provision for, especially if you look at the First Schedule to Cap 476 that we are trying to amend. Clause 146 deals with exempt supplies. The provision that was made here is that the Cabinet Secretary has to make a determination on what to exempt from VAT to the provided magnitude to promote investment in manufacturing in the country or in a sector. Every moment we pass these tax laws, it is important that we look at what investment we are promoting and what manufacturing is to be promoted. For purposes of legislation, it is vitally important that pieces of legislation have to be clear so that everyone who is reading the 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": "law understands exactly when that law is going to affect him or her. The provision in the Act is that provided the value of such investment is not less than Ksh2 billion and the exemption was granted before 1st January 2024, it shall continue to apply for 12 months after that date. That is where the proposed amendment comes in. We now have to substitute 12 months after this date, which is the 1st of January 2024, with 12 months from the date of commencement of the Act. The date of commencement of the Act is actually the most important. In fact, the 1st of January 2024 may actually have been eaten into by the time the Bill was assented to. Therefore, the new date of commencement will actually give the relevant 12 months, which have to be considered as concessionary. Therefore, this is a good amendment and I support it."
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