30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
The Committee noted that the Kenya Roads Board bases the conditional allocation to counties from the Road Fuel Levy on 15 per cent of the funds‟ total estimated amount for the year 2019/2020. However, the National Treasury has never provided the total estimated amount of the fund for the year. Therefore, we are just using 15 per cent of the figure we do not know. There is also a problem there.
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
The Division of Revenue Bill has been enacted for the last several years from 2014/2015, and, in fact, the Bill has clauses 1 to 5. Clause 5 has been discussing if the revenue raised nationally in the Financial Year (FY) falls short of expected revenue set out in the Schedule, what will happen?
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the event of shortfall of revenue, the Bill provides for what will happen in Clause 5. In the previous Bills, before this year, Clause 5(1) was that any shortfall of revenue as set out in the schedule, that shortfall shall be borne by the national Government to the extent of the threshold prescribed by the regulations by the Cabinet Secretary. This year, the national Treasury and the National Assembly in the Bill they have brought to us, have diluted that provision and now reads – “If the actual revenue raised nationally in the FY falls short ...
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the light of that, the Committee and, of course, this Senate, is called upon to consider the Bill from the National Assembly, taking into account that there is no way this Senate will allow the allocation to the counties to go below the allocations of this Financial Year. The counties are getting Ksh314 billion this year, but the purported reduction of Kshs9 billion is not acceptable. Therefore, Kshs314 billion will be the base for us, and grow that with the three-year average inflation of 6.9 per cent and the figure comes to Kshs335.67 billion to the ...
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
This Senate, because of the confusion in the medical equipment leasing – there are no answers coming in terms of the cost of the project; when the project will end and what is being delivered – in the BPS, as I said, we recommend the suspension of that project pending further information. We, in the Committee, also recommend in our report that the proposed allocation to lease equipment of Kshs6.2 billion be deleted from the Division of Revenue Bill. We intend to also amend Clause 5(1) to indicate that any shortfall on revenues raised nationally, shall be borne by the ...
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is procedural. I moved the Bill the way it was submitted to us from the National Assembly. I have used my report to highlight the areas that we will deal with. Naturally, the amendments should be done at the Committee Stage. I ask Sen. Wetangula to second. Thank you very much for that.
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
On a point of information, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The Schedule referred to by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is in the Report of Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) to the Committee. It is not in this one.
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank Members for the contribution to this important Bill. As I earlier said, we will move amendments to put the Bill in line with our Budget Policy Statement. Rest assured that those amendments will take into account all the proposals and recommendations that came from Members.
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30 Apr 2019 in Senate:
With those remarks, I beg to move.
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