Caribbean Times 2nd Issue - Tuesday 21st February 2017
Caribbean Times 2nd Issue - Tuesday 21st February 2017
Caribbean Times 2nd Issue - Tuesday 21st February 2017
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4 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g<br />
<strong>Tuesday</strong> <strong>21st</strong> <strong>February</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
Senator Weston urges US-based<br />
businesses and citizens to pay their taxes<br />
SALE!<br />
By Joanna Paris<br />
The Foreign Accounts<br />
Tax Compliance Act<br />
United States of America<br />
implementation and<br />
enforcement of the Inter-governmental<br />
agreement<br />
Bill <strong>2017</strong> was given<br />
the approval of the Upper<br />
House of Parliament last<br />
week.<br />
There was no debate<br />
on the bill, indicating<br />
that the senators were in<br />
agreement with the contents<br />
of the bill.<br />
Leader of Government<br />
Business, Senator<br />
Lennox Weston, indicated<br />
that the tax obligations<br />
of persons who have US<br />
based businesses or are<br />
in the possession of a US<br />
passport or Permanent<br />
Residence Card will have<br />
to be met with the passage<br />
of the bill.<br />
He added that it will<br />
also increase the cost of<br />
compliance for financial<br />
institutions.<br />
He noted that the Inland<br />
Revenue Department<br />
(IRD) will have a<br />
SALE!<br />
SALE!<br />
State Insurance Corporation announces the sale of<br />
damaged vehicles. Contact us at 481-7818/17/12 to<br />
make an appointment to view vehicles. Then submit<br />
sealed bid including name address and telephone number<br />
of bidder, bid value and make and model of vehicle.<br />
Address bids to Salvage Sales and drop off at our<br />
office on Redcliffe St. Our representative will contact<br />
you.<br />
critical part to play in the<br />
process.<br />
“The Inland Revenue<br />
Commissioner is now the<br />
official person and we<br />
will need to hire persons<br />
to ensure that we are in<br />
fact complying.<br />
“If we do not comply,<br />
then the lucrative<br />
offshore sector that we<br />
are looking to invest in<br />
will come under the hammer”,<br />
Senator Weston<br />
emphasized.<br />
Senator Lennox Weston.<br />
Massiah pleased<br />
with gender parity<br />
in the Senate<br />
By Joanna Paris<br />
Female politician and Member of Parliament for the All<br />
Saints East and St. Luke Constituency, the Hon. Joanne<br />
Massiah has expressed happiness with the fact that gender<br />
parity has been achieved in the Senate with the appointment<br />
of Senator Aziza Lake.<br />
Senator Lake, who sits on the government’s bench, made<br />
her maiden presentation last week Thursday, where she<br />
highlighted the concerns of youth, women and men among<br />
other areas of social development.<br />
MP Massiah said that she was “very pleased and excited<br />
about the news of the appointed of Senator Lake” and has<br />
offered the young, female Senator congratulatory words.<br />
She indicated that Senator Lake is a true advocate, who<br />
not only speaks on behalf of women and girls but also the<br />
youth.<br />
“She must never be afraid to speak to the issues because<br />
we are in this together and she has my full support”, MP<br />
Massiah declared.<br />
MP Massiah was a guest on ABS’s Against the Backdrop<br />
on Monday.