Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

[ProtonPowder]

Finding out for a colleague: "I filled out the property tax form in 2021 when my land had no building on it. I never got a call or email afterwards. I started construction but not completed to date. Do I have to fill a new assessment form or how do I modify my existing one?"

"Go find out from the government office"

[fokhan_96]

Finding out for a colleague: "I filled out the property tax form in 2021 when my land had no building on it. I never got a call or email afterwards. I started construction but not completed to date. Do I have to fill a new assessment form or how do I modify my existing one?"

"Go find out from the government office"

This. Take a day off work, reach early and take a number and sit/stand in the sun and wait. Phone calls go unanswered and emails are a waste. Because we like it so.

[wing]

Finding out for a colleague: "I filled out the property tax form in 2021 when my land had no building on it. I never got a call or email afterwards. I started construction but not completed to date. Do I have to fill a new assessment form or how do I modify my existing one?"

"Go find out from the government office"

This. Take a day off work, reach early and take a number and sit/stand in the sun and wait. Phone calls go unanswered and emails are a waste. Because we like it so.

Our public servants except hoover, deserve more than 4%. Only then they will work.

[pugboy]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

[Dave]

Couva office today was quite easy but eventually got overwhelmed.
The government wants every dollar from this exercise. They know what they are doing to ensure this.

[alfa]

Paid mine in Siparia last week or so at the warden office/govt complex. No one was lining up or rushing, was just us alone. Went in for 8 and as usual public servants have to go for breakfast soon as they reach but still got through in under 10 mins.
Seems the more countryside you live the lower your rates,my aunt who has a small flats gor assessed for $150 lol. Mine was under $600

[alfa]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

[shake d livin wake d dead]

It ain't just about the location bro

Imo, it playing a part! On my side of the bush, there are properties with pool etc paying $1500 for the year, but when you watch the surroundings and area is only bush and well nearby streets are deemed "hotpots".

[hover11]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

[bluefete]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

How many people in government and opposition are business owners?

[pugboy]

just like how they promising to have serious proper taxation on casinos since manning days
guess who own the big casinos…

[PariaMan]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

The unc plan was to start with commercial.

Knowing imbert, who is a property developer, you really expected him to start with commercial

Word was that when he came in, ministry officials begged him to start with industrial and commercial but he refused

It just defies logic to start with residential when businesses are using the same services to actually make money

[hover11]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

How many people in government and opposition are business owners?

Them that means 95 percent of POS and Sando not paying property tax . So basically is only the working class money who have to feel the brunt of this.

[pugboy]

pareto principle 80/20 rule
here it is 99/1

[PariaMan]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

[hover11]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

How else do you expect the rich to get richer....

[VexXx Dogg]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

because that's the law set by the people who we collectively put in power.

[The_Honourable]

pnm have belly yuh know


Tunapuna MP Esmond Forde visits people in the line at the Tunapuna Administrative Complex as they pay their property tax. He also provided some of them with water, iced tea and Kiss cakes as they waited.

https://www.facebook.com/CNC3Television ... 0453362045

[PariaMan]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

because that's the law set by the people who we collectively put in power.

Slavery was once the law

[wing]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

The unc plan was to start with commercial.

Knowing imbert, who is a property developer, you really expected him to start with commercial

Word was that when he came in, ministry officials begged him to start with industrial and commercial but he refused

It just defies logic to start with residential when businesses are using the same services to actually make money

The UNC plan was to axe the tax.

[sMASH]

Imagine, despite the lines , thry don't get 50% of people paying . Thst will hadda squash .
When govt change next year , it will squash .

They had 10 years to organize online payments, leaving it cash with no registered mail notification seems suspect .

I still thinks is a cash grab .
...Jess like pandemic leave .

[zoom rader]

so have to go to a place with no parking and line up like dog
impsbert really need a good riot in he tail

even licensing office does be better facilitated

Faris say from next year you could pay online, meen know if it'll play off

The same way commercial properties supposed to start from next year too, you will wait for that. Still don't understand the logic behind it , if the logic is to earn revenue, why exclude the business community

The unc plan was to start with commercial.

Knowing imbert, who is a property developer, you really expected him to start with commercial

Word was that when he came in, ministry officials begged him to start with industrial and commercial but he refused

It just defies logic to start with residential when businesses are using the same services to actually make money

The UNC plan was to axe the tax.

I will vote for the Axe

Cause my Tax money is going to fuel PNM criminal gangs

[PariaMan]

No getting away from property tax
by

20130910
On Monday, the other shoe fell on the long-discussed issue of property tax. Minister of Finance Larry Howai announced in his budget presentation that land and building taxes would return.In the first phase, set for implementation by July 1, 2014, taxes will come due on industrial lands and buildings; then taxes on commercial properties will be assessed and levied; and in Phase 3–the most delicate sector–taxes on agricultural lands and residential properties will be assessed and applied

http://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.407534.4dfcd05583

[PariaMan]

This should be the order

I can get behind this but no way to start with residential

[Dizzy28]

pnm have belly yuh know


Tunapuna MP Esmond Forde visits people in the line at the Tunapuna Administrative Complex as they pay their property tax. He also provided some of them with water, iced tea and Kiss cakes as they waited.

https://www.facebook.com/CNC3Television ... 0453362045

Man really "let them cake" literally????

Legend!

[sMASH]

pnm have belly yuh know


Tunapuna MP Esmond Forde visits people in the line at the Tunapuna Administrative Complex as they pay their property tax. He also provided some of them with water, iced tea and Kiss cakes as they waited.

https://www.facebook.com/CNC3Television ... 0453362045

Man really "let them cake" literally????

Legend!

That is Uber aristocrat level troll there ..

[pugboy]

is the pin number unique to the owner even if they own multiple properties?

[VexXx Dogg]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

because that's the law set by the people who we collectively put in power.

Slavery was once the law

And then it was abolished.
I don't get your point.

It's currently the law, and the last grap who coulda/woulda/shoulda abolish it didn't.
So we all have that lovely carille juice to drink, and I don't want it either - but the old adage about death and taxes holds true.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

is the pin number unique to the owner even if they own multiple properties?

Different property different #

[PariaMan]

Not understanding how trinis rushing to pay a tax when Businesses who using the same facilities like road garbage disposals ect not paying a cent.

because that's the law set by the people who we collectively put in power.

Slavery was once the law

And then it was abolished.
I don't get your point.

It's currently the law, and the last grap who coulda/woulda/shoulda abolish it didn't.
So we all have that lovely carille juice to drink, and I don't want it either - but the old adage about death and taxes holds true.

So if you was living in slavery times you would have said slavery is the law so let me get some slaves?

We have a right to resist unjust laws.

If no one had submitted forms there would be no property tax right now

Across the world people have demonstrated their strength and gotten laws changed

We in Trinidad are basically sheep who stand for nothing and resist nothing