Daily Archives: October 7, 2009

Complaints, Finance, General T&T, PNM, Politics

Proliferation of Fact and Fiction in the Property Tax Debacle

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By Stephen Kangal – Caroni
October 07, 2009
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog

HouseThis ill-conceived, thief-in-the night and fiscally obscene property tax is being driven and confused by a conflicting and contradictory interplay of the contending forces of fact and fiction. In one fell swoop all proud resident home-owners of T&T have been reduced to fictitious renters paying fictitiously high rents way beyond their (f)actual salaries in order to arrive at an artificial and fictitious annual taxable value (ATV) for one’s fictitiously rented home. They have even thrown in the factual two-month compensatory renting hiatus period to arrive at the fictitious, unreal ATV.
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Complaints, General T&T, PNM, Politics, UDeCOTT

Time to replace the PNM

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By George Alleyne
October 7 2009 – newsday.co.tt
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com

PNMIt is time for a multi-racial and multi-economic group political party to emerge which will effectively challenge and replace the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) at the next General Election. The country should be prepared to accept that the PNM today is but a simulacrum of the party which the late Dr Eric Williams created.
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