Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

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Yes but we can show we disagree by voting out the PNM

Bro the PNM African man are renters & Squaters they dont care about house taxes and have no need to vote non PNM parties.

The greedy Injuns could not care for less to vote non PNM. Most of these greedy injuns was blanked by UNC and decided to mash up UNC in favor of PNM.

Moral is Trinidad is full of people that only put themselves first and don't give a damm about you.

Squatters are held responsible for property taxes also.

The levy of penalties is where they are effectively not.

They gonna throw them off land they not supposed to be on in the first place ... Lol

Let them try that in laventille or PNM hot spots

Beetham residents paying any light bill yet? If they not paying light bill you feel they will pay property tax

[AlphaMan]

Allya will need to sell some of your property to pay the property tax.

If everyone selling who buying?

[generic]

New deadline announced

[AlphaMan]

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New deadline announced

What about the election date..

[PariaMan]

Listening to CNC news and seeing an elderly couple collecting one pension and having to pay 500 and saying it's a struggle with all their other bills

This is a real heartless government

Their pension will not increase. We looking at increases in utility bills. Food prices still going up.

Extremely heartless and overbearing

[adnj]

Listening to CNC news and seeing an elderly couple collecting one pension and having to pay 500 and saying it's a struggle with all their other bills

This is a real heartless government

Their pension will not increase. We looking at increases in utility bills. Food prices still going up.

Extremely heartless and overbearing

Deferment application.

[PariaMan]

Deferment to leave a huge 'Inheritance ' tax on their children who may be equally poor and/or close to retirement when they Inherit the house.

[PariaMan]

I really do not expect people like Imbert and Young to understand poor people

I think Rowley did by his statement in 2009 but now he is totally out of touch

[adnj]

Deferment to leave a huge 'Inheritance ' tax on their children who may be equally poor and/or close to retirement when they Inherit the house.

Deferment application.

[paid_influencer]

Deferment to leave a huge 'Inheritance ' tax on their children who may be equally poor and/or close to retirement when they Inherit the house.

for most poor people, the only thing of lasting value they have is their house. money in the bank loses value after 30 years of inflation. tools, vehicles, etc, does mash up. gold does get stolen. but concrete does last. even granchilren and great granchilren could live there. that lil property even if is a shed, is the poor mans generational wealth.

rowley taking a cut of that too

[paid_influencer]

Listening to CNC news and seeing an elderly couple collecting one pension and having to pay 500 and saying it's a struggle with all their other bills

This is a real heartless government

Their pension will not increase. We looking at increases in utility bills. Food prices still going up.

Extremely heartless and overbearing

again these old people have a choice come may 26. the ball in their court

[generic]

Deferment to leave a huge 'Inheritance ' tax on their children who may be equally poor and/or close to retirement when they Inherit the house.

The act already addresses this

basically if the successor can't pay, they can apply for an exemption of the outstanding (previously deferred) taxes.

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All these old people complaining?


Yet still they vote PNM


Jack arse Country

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All these old people complaining?


Yet still they vote PNM


Jack arse Country

They haven't received in an increase in pension since 2012 and still will be out early on election morning to vote PNM, they set in their ways. The young ppl don't vote that's the problem

[pugboy]

was the nis pension supposed to be increased to match the 3500 old age social pension?

[DMan7]

^ Them looking to increase pension age you think they will increase the value of the nis distributed per month? You really delusional boi

[zoom rader]

All these old people complaining?


Yet still they vote PNM


Jack arse Country

They haven't received in an increase in pension since 2012 and still will be out early on election morning to vote PNM, they set in their ways. The young ppl don't vote that's the problem

Stupidity in Trinidad is at the young & old age.

Those that have some sense are in the middle class which is getting smaller as most are leaving Trinidad

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The political gimmick known as old age pension, should have never increased, now you have a situation where ppl paid their money into an entity for years only to get a pension of 3000. Where their counterparts who never contributed to such will receive more than them. Playing politics with foolishness.

was the nis pension supposed to be increased to match the 3500 old age social pension?

[dogg]

I dislike PNM more than most.

But, I dislike pandering Kamla and her disorganised, infighting band of losers more.

So PNM it is.

All these old people complaining?


Yet still they vote PNM


Jack arse Country

[paid_influencer]

is not about who you "like"

is about who will improve your material conditions.

specifically who will be better on crime and the economy.

you really going to go down the road with hinds and imbert ?
that seem like a good plan to you?

[pugboy]

correct
don’t suffer from battered wife syndrome

is not about who you "like"

is about who will improve your material conditions. who will be better on crime and the economy.

you really going to go down the road with hinds and imbert ?

[hover11]

Allya men have battered women syndrome yes, we going by our abuser because we don't like the alternative, sounding like women who say crap like a man doesn't love you if he doesn't beat you. PNM doesn't love you unless they suffer you I guess.

I dislike PNM more than most.

But, I dislike pandering Kamla and her disorganised, infighting band of losers more.

So PNM it is.

All these old people complaining?


Yet still they vote PNM


Jack arse Country

[hover11]

is not about who you "like"

is about who will improve your material conditions.

specifically who will be better on crime and the economy.

you really going to go down the road with hinds and imbert ?
that seem like a good plan to you?

The will NEVER admit that kamla performed much better in terms of handling the economy and crime.....everything else is personal issues with the party

[mero]

Dis not the property tax ched? If it's known kamla not gonna axe tax and it's gonna be implemented regardless, why we even talking about she here for and voting for her?

[paid_influencer]

If it's known kamla not gonna axe tax

what jackassness allyuh talking

https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... d8e99.html

Kamla: Axe the wicked tax
Mar 19, 2024

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called for a total repeal of the Property Tax Amendment Act.

She argued that people are under more pressure now than they were 15 years ago when this “poverty” tax was first introduced.

In her contribution to the Property Tax Amendment Bill 2024 at the Parliament sitting yesterday, the former prime minister also made it “categorically clear” that she owns no property abroad.

She was responding to Finance Minister Colm Imbert who said Opposition members pay exorbitant property taxes in other countries where they have properties.

Persad-Bissessar said that in 2009 Dr Keith Rowley stood up against the Patrick Manning government and said the property tax was a burden to the people.

She read Rowley’s words from Hansard: “I know many people in this country for whom $100 is much money, there are many people in this country who are struggling to make ends meet and such persons faced with an increase whether $200, $600 or $500, they are living at the margin.”

She said Rowley spoke about the anger of his Diego Martin West constituents over the tax and questioned what happened to Rowley in the past 15 years that changed him from fighting for his constituents to now saying that the property tax is a priority.

She emphasised that her position remains unchanged - she was against the tax 15 years ago, and today.

“I am of the view that this tax is not property tax, I believe it is poverty tax that will further bring citizens to pauperisation,” she said.

Tax revolts

The tax is form of “open warfare” at a time when the country is experiencing so much hardship with Government-induced high prices and inflation, Persad-Bissessar added.

The Government, she said, should bring a Bill to repeal the Property Tax Act.

“We are totally against the property tax, because it is an unfair tax. It will cause more hardship on the population, we do not support whether it is 0 per cent, 2%, 3%, any per cent, the whole Property Tax Act must go. We say no to it,” she said.

According to Persad-Bissessar, “tax revolts” in other countries led to regime changes, adding that history is replete with revolutions and wars that began because ordinary people refuse to pay unjust unfair taxes to tyrant leaders.

She added that since the beginning of civilisation, tax resistance has caused the collapse of several empires, including Egyptian, Roman, Spanish and Aztec.

Persad-Bissessar narrated the biblical story of Zacchaeus — a short, rich and corrupt chief tax collector.

She said when Jesus passed through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, Zacchaeus climbed up a sycamore tree to see him, because he was so short.

Persad-Bissessar said Jesus went to the tree and invited Zacchaeus as his guest.

And after this encounter, Zacchaeus said: “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

Persad-Bissessar said in this holy time of Easter, this story symbolises Jesus’ open arms to all “and therefore I call upon this Government to do like he did…to repeal and remove this wicked tax once for all and call the elections now and take yourself out of Government.”

Glaring errors

Persad-Bissessar also blasted the Government on its speed to bring the Property Tax Amendment Bill and all its glaring errors.

The legislation, she said, is like “property invasion” as the Government is moving swiftly to grab up as much taxes as it can.

The Opposition had warned about the unfair calculation of the property tax, and even in the face of objections from the population on the calculation of Annual Rental Value Imbert has ignored this, she said.

Persad-Bissessar also criticised Imbert’s statement that the tax will be deferred for those who are unable to pay such as pensioners, the elderly and the vulnerable on social support.

“This is where they are going to defer it and when you die it becomes a death tax…it is an inheritance tax because your successor in title will become an inheritor of the tax, they will have to pay it,” she said.

Persad-Bissessar further objected to a provision whereby the minister, subject to negative resolution, could amend the schedule and make changes to the rate for residential property tax.

At present, she noted, it is an affirmative resolution, so the minister must come to the Parliament before any changes are made.

Persad-Bissessar said she disagrees with changing this as she questioned why the Government does not account to the people.

[PariaMan]

Say no to property tax .

Resist do not pay a cent

Let them come at you but resist

[st7]

Listening to CNC news and seeing an elderly couple collecting one pension and having to pay 500 and saying it's a struggle with all their other bills

This is a real heartless government

Their pension will not increase. We looking at increases in utility bills. Food prices still going up.

Extremely heartless and overbearing

again these old people have a choice come may 26. the ball in their court

what happening on May 26?

[paid_influencer]

what happening on May 26?

i keeping that in my back pocket

and when I ready I going to move it to my front pocket

[mero]

If it's known kamla not gonna axe tax

what jackassness allyuh talking

https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... d8e99.html

Kamla: Axe the wicked tax
Mar 19, 2024

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called for a total repeal of the Property Tax Amendment Act.

She argued that people are under more pressure now than they were 15 years ago when this “poverty” tax was first introduced.

In her contribution to the Property Tax Amendment Bill 2024 at the Parliament sitting yesterday, the former prime minister also made it “categorically clear” that she owns no property abroad.

She was responding to Finance Minister Colm Imbert who said Opposition members pay exorbitant property taxes in other countries where they have properties.

Persad-Bissessar said that in 2009 Dr Keith Rowley stood up against the Patrick Manning government and said the property tax was a burden to the people.

She read Rowley’s words from Hansard: “I know many people in this country for whom $100 is much money, there are many people in this country who are struggling to make ends meet and such persons faced with an increase whether $200, $600 or $500, they are living at the margin.”

She said Rowley spoke about the anger of his Diego Martin West constituents over the tax and questioned what happened to Rowley in the past 15 years that changed him from fighting for his constituents to now saying that the property tax is a priority.

She emphasised that her position remains unchanged - she was against the tax 15 years ago, and today.

“I am of the view that this tax is not property tax, I believe it is poverty tax that will further bring citizens to pauperisation,” she said.

Tax revolts

The tax is form of “open warfare” at a time when the country is experiencing so much hardship with Government-induced high prices and inflation, Persad-Bissessar added.

The Government, she said, should bring a Bill to repeal the Property Tax Act.

“We are totally against the property tax, because it is an unfair tax. It will cause more hardship on the population, we do not support whether it is 0 per cent, 2%, 3%, any per cent, the whole Property Tax Act must go. We say no to it,” she said.

According to Persad-Bissessar, “tax revolts” in other countries led to regime changes, adding that history is replete with revolutions and wars that began because ordinary people refuse to pay unjust unfair taxes to tyrant leaders.

She added that since the beginning of civilisation, tax resistance has caused the collapse of several empires, including Egyptian, Roman, Spanish and Aztec.

Persad-Bissessar narrated the biblical story of Zacchaeus — a short, rich and corrupt chief tax collector.

She said when Jesus passed through Jericho on his way to Jerusalem, Zacchaeus climbed up a sycamore tree to see him, because he was so short.

Persad-Bissessar said Jesus went to the tree and invited Zacchaeus as his guest.

And after this encounter, Zacchaeus said: “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

Persad-Bissessar said in this holy time of Easter, this story symbolises Jesus’ open arms to all “and therefore I call upon this Government to do like he did…to repeal and remove this wicked tax once for all and call the elections now and take yourself out of Government.”

Glaring errors

Persad-Bissessar also blasted the Government on its speed to bring the Property Tax Amendment Bill and all its glaring errors.

The legislation, she said, is like “property invasion” as the Government is moving swiftly to grab up as much taxes as it can.

The Opposition had warned about the unfair calculation of the property tax, and even in the face of objections from the population on the calculation of Annual Rental Value Imbert has ignored this, she said.

Persad-Bissessar also criticised Imbert’s statement that the tax will be deferred for those who are unable to pay such as pensioners, the elderly and the vulnerable on social support.

“This is where they are going to defer it and when you die it becomes a death tax…it is an inheritance tax because your successor in title will become an inheritor of the tax, they will have to pay it,” she said.

Persad-Bissessar further objected to a provision whereby the minister, subject to negative resolution, could amend the schedule and make changes to the rate for residential property tax.

At present, she noted, it is an affirmative resolution, so the minister must come to the Parliament before any changes are made.

Persad-Bissessar said she disagrees with changing this as she questioned why the Government does not account to the people.

This feels like dejavu yes lol.

Kamla not going and axe no mc tax . Stop setting up yourself for disappointment

[PariaMan]

A chance better than no hope