It arises from an ongoing audit of BTL by the GST department and the auditor's assessment of what are called internal subsidiary flows. It's highly technical, but the bottom line is that the GST auditor reviewed records from 2012 to 2017 and concluded that BTL owed the GST office almost 30 million dollars.

But, today the Financial Secretary told us someone has it all wrong. Joe Waight told us that no assessment has been given to BTL, so the company owes nothing. He said the audit is ongoing but not completed - and even when it is - higher up's would need to sit down and check the basis of any assessment. He said that there has perhaps been some lack of clarity about technical issues concerning intra-company transactions.