Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
FINANCE Minister Colm Imbert, who is scraping everywhere to collect money, will soon tax doubles and other vendors.
TRINIDAD and Tobago is now one of only 12 countries in the world on the European Union’s tax blacklist.
The EU has just removed The Bahamas, Belize, Turks and Caicos Islands and Seychelles from its dreaded blacklist.
But T&T is still there, with other countries that, according to the EU, are “not cooperative on tax matters.”
FLORIDA, the American state closest to Trinidad and Tobago, is moving to scrap property tax.
The state’s legislature is undertaking a study to determine the financial impact of eliminating the tax.
THERE is still anxiety in the country over claims of an incoming inheritance tax despite the government’s stout denial of the political opposition’s allegations.