Dear Editor,
I am saddened by the state of our economy. Our leaders are telling us one thing and behind closed doors they are engaging in self-gained hypocrisy. Before someone turns a state official he/she had a private life, in some cases was making millions in their private business. The problem comes when that public office is use for gains only for their supporters and family members.
It's a requirement of a government minister to step aside from his/her private businesses before taking up such office. In some cases, that person signs it over to a family member or a close business partner (nothing is wrong with that), but what is wrong and disgracefully inappropriate, is when the said minister uses his/her influence for the granting of waivers for the same business which he once owned, or run one by his/her family members, on supporter of the same political party or members of their executive.
It is grossly dishonouring to other members of the business community who are taxed daily for imports and exports. While those, who are politically alien, benefit off the back of others. It's by law that a vehicle should be six years or under to enter the country. But the political beneficiaries are importing vehicles in great numbers, some up to 1997 trucks. That's the reason Jamaica is in the state that it is in currently. The poor pays the bills, while the rich and the political hooligans walk free.
The prime minister speaks daily about the poor, but yet she doesn't care. It's just cheap political socialist rhetoric to evangelise her political gospel to her supporters. General Consumption Tax is killing the average unemployed Jamaican and the working poor, while supporters of some political parties are getting tax waivers on imports for construction, and material for the building of their private house.
Mr Editor, I am using this forum to question recent moves by the PNP Administration
(1) To give a total cost by dollar how many waivers have been granted since the administration took office
(2) The list of the names of those business which have made requests for waivers
(3) How many members of the Government, who once had businesses registered in their names or spouse's names, received tax waivers on imports.
(4) Why some trucks/cars which are above the import age limit are exempt.
Ziggy Effion Lewis
effionlewis@ymail.com
Saddened by state of the economy
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I am saddened by the state of our economy. Our leaders are telling us one thing and behind closed doors they are engaging in self-gained hypocrisy. Before someone turns a state official he/she had a private life, in some cases was making millions in their private business. The problem comes when that public office is use for gains only for their supporters and family members.
It's a requirement of a government minister to step aside from his/her private businesses before taking up such office. In some cases, that person signs it over to a family member or a close business partner (nothing is wrong with that), but what is wrong and disgracefully inappropriate, is when the said minister uses his/her influence for the granting of waivers for the same business which he once owned, or run one by his/her family members, on supporter of the same political party or members of their executive.
It is grossly dishonouring to other members of the business community who are taxed daily for imports and exports. While those, who are politically alien, benefit off the back of others. It's by law that a vehicle should be six years or under to enter the country. But the political beneficiaries are importing vehicles in great numbers, some up to 1997 trucks. That's the reason Jamaica is in the state that it is in currently. The poor pays the bills, while the rich and the political hooligans walk free.
The prime minister speaks daily about the poor, but yet she doesn't care. It's just cheap political socialist rhetoric to evangelise her political gospel to her supporters. General Consumption Tax is killing the average unemployed Jamaican and the working poor, while supporters of some political parties are getting tax waivers on imports for construction, and material for the building of their private house.
Mr Editor, I am using this forum to question recent moves by the PNP Administration
(1) To give a total cost by dollar how many waivers have been granted since the administration took office
(2) The list of the names of those business which have made requests for waivers
(3) How many members of the Government, who once had businesses registered in their names or spouse's names, received tax waivers on imports.
(4) Why some trucks/cars which are above the import age limit are exempt.
Ziggy Effion Lewis
effionlewis@ymail.com
Saddened by state of the economy
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