{"id":54674,"date":"2021-07-27T03:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54674"},"modified":"2021-07-27T03:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T07:48:54","slug":"car-exemption-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54674","title":{"rendered":"Car exemption hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Errol Pilgrim
\nJuly 25, 2021 – trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n

Raffique Shah<\/a>John Doe is not a government minister, neither is he head of any government department.<\/p>\n

Mr Doe is among the thousands of ordinary workers in the public service entitled by law to tax-exempt purchases of motor cars.<\/p>\n

Like his counterparts in other statutory bodies and throughout the public service, Doe is a travelling officer entitled \u2013 pandemic or no pandemic – to motor-car tax exemptions and a travelling allowance.
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\nBut the UNC\u2019s surfeit of crassness and hypocrisy has now hit a new low. It condemns government ministers for accessing the same motor-car tax exemption entitlement that UNC Members of Parliament have accepted during the pandemic \u2013 an entitlement that was so obscenely abused by some UNC ministers during their term in office that some are the subject of ongoing police investigations.
\nFull Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Errol Pilgrim July 25, 2021 – trinidadexpress.com John Doe is not a government minister, neither is he head of any government department. Mr Doe is among the thousands of ordinary workers in the public service entitled by law to tax-exempt purchases of motor cars. Like his counterparts in other statutory bodies and throughout the … Continue reading Car exemption hypocrisy<\/span> →<\/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":[1,30,7,142],"tags":[85,1560,49,1561],"class_list":["post-54674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-errol-pilgrim","tag-tt-govt","tag-tax-exempt-purchases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674","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=54674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54676,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54674\/revisions\/54676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}