{"id":10050,"date":"2017-05-15T06:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2017-05-19T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T00:27:30","slug":"property-tax-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10050","title":{"rendered":"PROPERTY TAX IN COURT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Jada Loutoo<br \/>\nMay 13 2017 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,243560.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,243560.html\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/newsday130517.png' width='150' height='190' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PROPERTY TAX IN COURT' \/><\/a>AN ALL out attack has been launched against Government on the implementation of the property tax. In separate strikes, legal letters were fired off yesterday by a battery of lawyers representing three landowners threatening to take Government to court for what has been described as an \u201cambush\u201d on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the actions seek to have the courts review the implementation process of the controversial tax while the third is a constitutional challenge to the property tax. In the judicial review and constitutional claims former transport minister Devant Maharaj, United National Congress activist Ravi Balgobin Maharaj and Chaguanas resident Lutchmidat Ramcallie, are asking the Government to hold its hand on the implementation of the Property Tax until it amends the legislative provisions and before the court determines the actions.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nGovernment has been given until next week to respond otherwise the three will approach the courts with their legal challenges. <\/p>\n<p><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,243560.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jada Loutoo May 13 2017 &#8211; newsday.co.tt AN ALL out attack has been launched against Government on the implementation of the property tax. In separate strikes, legal letters were fired off yesterday by a battery of lawyers representing three landowners threatening to take Government to court for what has been described as an \u201cambush\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PROPERTY TAX IN COURT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,1,30,7,1271,1102,142],"tags":[394,253,445,144,60,1269,1015,189,1268,49],"class_list":["post-10050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-property-tax","category-recession","category-unc","tag-anand-ramlogan","tag-colm-imbert","tag-devant-maharaj","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-lutchmidat-ramcallie","tag-politics","tag-property-tax","tag-ravi-balgobin-maharaj","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10052,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}