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NEW TAX COMING
Posted: Saturday, September 19, 2020
NEW TAX COMING
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert said the property tax will be used to earn state revenues as government tries to keep TT afloat during major financial fallout from the covid19 pandemic. He said TT's economic state is not unique, pointing to oil-rich Dubai, which he claimed is on the brink of collapse.
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"It would not have got to 50 per cent of houses up to when I checked it, because that is the common trigger for starting the property tax. In the legislation it currently says we can start imposing the tax once we have got to that benchmark. And it is not households, it is properties," she noted.
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