Benjamin Kipkirui Langat

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to sort out my friend, so that she can be comfortable. We had a meeting today and agreed that sanitary towels will be part of the items to be exempted from VAT. view
• 30 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Members who contributed to this Bill. I wish to donate two minutes to hon. Mwadeghu who was a very good Chairman in the last Parliament and I was his Vice-Chair. view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think you need to move us forward. This is because what hon. Kamama was answering was the question by the hon. Member for Mwala and the question was very specific. The procedure is that if you want us to talk about insecurity in view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, that is if they want any statement from the Chair. However, you cannot convert a specific question of one constituency into a question for the whole country. That will be unfair to the Committee. view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to move that the Value Added Tax Bill, National Assembly Bill No.9 of 2013 be now read a Second Time. view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: You will note that this is one of the Bills, as I move it, that has generated a lot of debate and interest in the last few days. This is the Bill that will amend the previous Act. It will replace it completely with the new Act. The interest it has created is understood because when any change comes and especially, when you are talking about a complete overhaul of a system, there is bound to be people who are not comfortable. view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill was brought forward--- view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill was brought here for the First Reading on 2nd July, 2013. As per our Standing Orders, we encourage public participation. First and foremost, I want to say that the process of overhauling this Bill began way back in 2010/2011, when the Minister for Finance then, who is now our President, proposed to overhaul the VAT system to make it simple for everybody to understand it. The Bill came here during the last Parliament, but it was not debated. The biggest challenges in the current Act are complications which have arisen from several amendments that ... view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to request for your protection. Maybe, you should do something. We are now in serious business of the House. There is need for serious understanding of how the business of the House should be conducted. We are trying to make laws here. I do not want hon. Members to come here two years later and say that this Bill was rushed through Parliament when we have all the time to look at it now. I want hon. Members to listen as I initiate debate on it, so that we can do a good job. ... view
• 25 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: I was saying that to-date, out of the complications that arose out of the amendments that were made to the Act over the years, the private sector is demanding a whopping Kshs29 billion because of the system that is in place. So, the decision to introduce this Bill is intended at simplifying the VAT system. One of the greatest tenets of a good public finance system, in terms of taxation, is its simplicity. My colleagues who are conversant with public finance know that a good tax system must be simple to understand and operate. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have ... view