Errors in Sales Tax Bill Delay Action in the House
Chairman of the Revenue Task Force, Attorney General Eleasalo Talauega Ale, has apologized to members of the House Ways and Means Committee for mistakes identified with one of the ...Read more
Chairman of the Revenue Task Force, Attorney General Eleasalo Talauega Ale, has apologized to members of the House Ways and Means Committee for mistakes identified with one of the ...Read more
Senators have approved in second reading an administration bill which the ASG Revenue Task Force says is intended to return money to taxpayers, This is the bill to update the IRS tax table which ...Read more
Members of the public are questioning limited public access to the sessions and hearings of the House of Representatives at their new site on the east side of the Lee Auditorium. Since the House ...Read more
Is American Samoa heading towards financial suicide? Prominent local businessman, Tom Drabble, believes so and says passing the government’s requested revenue measures is a clear mandate to ...Read more
The House Ways and Means Committee has entertained a motion from Tuala-uta Representative Vui Florence Saulo to move the effective date of the administration’s bill to change the tax tables for ...Read more
How will the administration collect the 7% sales tax and what guarantees can it give that the collection will be better than the last time we had a sales tax? The collection method for the sales ...Read more
Tomorrow the House Ways and Means Committee begins reviewing the administration’s revenue bills.. The first one is HB 35-7, which calls for the gradual repeal of the 5% excise tax on commercial ...Read more
The administration’s multi year plan to improve local revenue generation is a mixture of amendments to existing laws, new revenue bills and repeals, and updates of certain money making laws. The ...Read more
A 7% sales tax, changing the tax table from 2000 to 2004, new sin taxes, $1 payroll deduction fee, gradual reduction of the 5% excise tax on commercial imports and elimination of the 2% wage tax ...Read more
As the Fono gets ready for the start of the second regular session of the 35th legislature next Monday the administration appears to be strategizing for passage of key legislation. KHJ News has ...Read more