BTL doesn’t owe any GST. That’s what the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance said this evening when the press asked him about the alleged 29 million dollars in arrears. Â
Documents circulated to the media show an audit concluding that this almost 30 million dollars is owed for the years 2012 - 2017. The PM refused that today:..
Rt. Hon Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"BTL owes no taxes. BTL pays its files and pays its GST. Now, obviously, some issue has arisen as to whether there is any GST liability pertaining to some intra-company transactions - I don't know if its intra or inter, some subsidiaries of BTL, that an audit is being conducted and that at the end of that audit, a determination will be made. Clearly, the position of BTL is that, there is no liability for taxes in that regard but we have to wait and see what the GST department will ultimately determine."
Reporter
"As the Minister of Finance are you aware of any communication between Chairman Nestor Vasquez and the Fin Sec in respect to a waiver of the taxes?"
Rt. Hon Dean Barrow
"Were you the ones who said that? Because when I read it somewhere, I was astounded, that is absolutely... you know what I can't say about the FTC, I can say about who ever said that. That is an outrageous lie! How could the people ask for a waiver of taxes that they say they don't owe? That is an absolute contemptable lie."
That was the last item covered in a two hour long press conference.
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