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
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
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep Lavea Legaee Mauga, has advised Treasury officials that before the government comes up with new taxes, it should take a good hard look at ...Read more
Lawmakers have stressed to the ASG Revenue Task Force that if collection is not properly enforced, no new tax measure will get the intended results. This point was stressed during Tuesday’s ...Read more
Yesterday’s hearing by the House Ways and Means Committee on one of the new revenue bills from the Lolo Lemanu administration identified some errors and duplications in the measure. This led to ...Read more
GHC Reid is supportive of the government’s move to amend the duty on beer and to tax non carbonated sugary drinks. A letter from the Acting General Manager of the biggest beverage importer in ...Read more
The ASG Revenue Task Force members faced tough questioning before the House Ways And Means Committee this morning during review of one of the five revenue bills designed to shore up collections for ...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 Fono is back in session today after a month long break. The proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget for the American Samoa Government, which usually takes up most of lawmakers attention in the second ...Read more
Neither the Acting Treasurer, nor Budget Director, or Chief Customs Officer, could provide any information on Customs’ revenue collections to the House Ways and Means Committee. The three ...Read more