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
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
The Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Senator Magalei Logovi’i, sent the ASG Revenue Task Force back to fix two revenue measures that were the subject of a Committee ...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
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
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