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
The Senate has passed a bill that establishes a 1% alternative minimum tax for businesses that over an extended period of time reports a loss. The bill was approved by a unanimous 14-0 ...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
The Senate passed in final reading yesterday a bill which clarifies the area where campaign activities are prohibited on Election Day. The approval was unanimous. The bill states that no campaign ...Read more
Amendments are being proposed for the American Samoa Sex Offenders Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) which was passed in 2014. The changes are designed to bring the territory in to ...Read more
A bill authorizing ASG to test government employees for alcohol and drugs was introduced in the Senate today by Alataua Senator Paepae Faiai and Manu’a Senator Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga ...Read more
Samoan tax payers look likely to foot the bill for mistakes by the Police in dealing with a man who had been locked up in a Police cell with his then three year old son in September 2016. The ...Read more
Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen is confident her bill to remove the requirements that banks hold off island checks for a certain time will also be passed by the Senate. The bill was approved by ...Read more
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 10 Financial CHOICE Act yesterday. Included in H.R. 10 was Congresswoman Amata’s bill H.R. 385, which would eliminate the long wait times for ...Read more
A bill, which would strengthen tsunami warning systems for the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, provides for tsunami research and data collection as well as awareness activities , is on its way ...Read more