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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby vickyexp » February 3rd, 2022, 4:34 pm

I really think the property tax funds won't be used for the purposes intended and even if a percentage is used, getting value for money is a long shot.

Property tax in my area (TX) avg USD$9.5k/yr but it's spent properly example below;

I use a back road to get home on evenings which is asphalt and begun to get some potholes. I emailed the county on Monday morning, got a response by the evening saying that it's assigned to an engineer to investigate. And by Thursday of that week, all holes were repaired the right way.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby 88sins » February 3rd, 2022, 5:48 pm

vickyexp wrote:I really think the property tax funds won't be used for the purposes intended and even if a percentage is used, getting value for money is a long shot.

Property tax in my area (TX) avg USD$9.5k/yr but it's spent properly example below;

I use a back road to get home on evenings which is asphalt and begun to get some potholes. I emailed the county on Monday morning, got a response by the evening saying that it's assigned to an engineer to investigate. And by Thursday of that week, all holes were repaired the right way.


Son, in this place we have road in we pothole.
To show you how bad it is

There's major roads within Port of Spain that look like 3rd world jungle trails, minus the trees and flora, in front of government offices and public buildings, and they remain so not for days or weeks, but for months and years.
Meanwhile, big multimillion dollar contracts sharing out to pave highways and off routes that are in relatively good condition by comparison. It have people living in this place, on streets and dirt roads, that trying for decades to get them paved and resurfaced, to no avail.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby st7 » February 28th, 2022, 9:36 am

another month-end, another deadline.

wonder if imps gonna extend again

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby bluefete » February 28th, 2022, 11:04 am

^^ NOPE.. Time for people to pay the $5,000.00 fines.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby 88sins » February 28th, 2022, 2:00 pm

bluefete wrote:^^ NOPE.. Time for people to pay the $5,000.00 fines.

not gonna happen. They dotish, not suicidal.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby dredman1 » March 2nd, 2022, 1:57 pm

Sooo…

The ”final” deadline come and gone, but still nothing from the gov’t on whether the deadline extended again?

Or silence = $5000 fine in people tail?

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby sMASH » March 2nd, 2022, 2:05 pm

i saw a post where they regularizing squatters so that they could get documents to file, to make up the numbers.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby st7 » March 2nd, 2022, 2:10 pm

according to the last announcement of the last deadline extension, it was going to be the final one.

so lewwe see if they really charge ppl this $5000 sheit

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby pugboy » March 2nd, 2022, 2:27 pm

let them start in heinz and leonce constituencies

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby zoom rader » March 2nd, 2022, 2:39 pm

pugboy wrote:let them start in heinz and leonce constituencies
Fat chance

They going after injuns first cause they docile

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby sMASH » March 2nd, 2022, 2:42 pm

doubles lives matter!

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby Rayden6 » March 2nd, 2022, 8:10 pm

5k waiting for them but court says it was illegal what the do.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby solarkh » March 7th, 2022, 9:52 am

Anyone got their 5k fine yet, or we ent cater?

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby RedVEVO » March 9th, 2022, 3:47 pm

Anybody NOT file the BIR Valuation papers and get lock up ?

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby hover11 » March 15th, 2022, 7:07 am

GOVERNMENT HAS RECEIVED THE OVER 200,000 VALUATION FORMS NEEDED TO TRIGGER THE PROPERTY TAX COLLECTION.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says his government is not going to ask citizens to pay a huge amount of property tax “to break your back”.

In an interview with the Express last week on a wide range of issues, the Prime Minister was asked whether the Ministry of Finance had reached the 50 per cent threshold to commence the implementation of property tax.

He responded: “Two hundred thousand returns had to be had and we have that. We now have to value the properties and then the tax could kick in at that stage.”

Told that property tax is another hit on the taxpayer, the Prime Minister said the bottom line was what could be done to improve people’s lives in their communities. He asked rhetorically what changes take place during the three-year period that local government elections are held.

https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ ... 5.amp.html

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby hover11 » March 15th, 2022, 7:08 am

Trinis just have mouth yes

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby Redman » March 15th, 2022, 7:17 am

It would be interesting to see the geographic distribution of the returns submitted.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby zoom rader » March 15th, 2022, 8:06 am

Injuns will be hit the hardest tax.

You all think laventill and Beetham or any red government hoods going to pay up . If they do its going to be the lowest

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby adnj » March 15th, 2022, 8:16 am

*rubbing palms together slowly*

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby timelapse » March 15th, 2022, 8:26 am

Allyuh remember my words clearly.
Government is deliberately collapsing the economy so that people cannot afford their property taxes.That clause to seize property is there for a reason.
Property gets bought up by 1%.
Turn T&T back to the plantation massa mentality.
You have been warned

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby ProtonPowder » March 15th, 2022, 9:08 pm

Redman wrote:It would be interesting to see the geographic distribution of the returns submitted.

this is your answer
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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby The_Honourable » April 11th, 2022, 7:03 pm

No timeline for property tax implementation

The Government currently has no definitive timeline for the implementation of property tax.

This from Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Brian Manning who told Guardian Media even when legislation is passed for local government reform, corporations will be funded by the Central Government.

The ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) has signaled their intention to pass the Miscellaneous Provisions (Local Government Reform) Bill 2020 by a simple majority, bypassing the need for Opposition support.

Speaking in Parliament last Friday, Manning said property tax implementation was critical to local government reform. At the time, he blasted the Opposition United National Congress (UNC), saying they were trying to block local government reform.

“They know full well that Local government has to be funded by property taxes and that is why they have been going to great lengths from the very beginning to obstruct both, both local government reform and also the implementation of reasonable and sensible property taxes. It would be virtually impossible to effectively finance local bodies and grant them the autonomy that they deserve without the implementation of property taxes,” Manning said on Friday.

However, when asked yesterday about the timeline for implementation of property taxes, Manning responded, “Not to date.”

Asked about whether the Government would consider delaying the implementation, given complaints by citizens about the high cost of living, Manning said, “You cannot delay what is yet to be decided. There is no definite timetable for the implementation of property taxes.”

When he was asked whether the non-implementation would put the Government in a precarious position with their plan to implement local government reform, Manning said, “Local govt reform is a gradual process and will not happen overnight even with the passage of legislation. Implementation will be a gradual process and of course, the well-being of the national community will always be first.”

He said local government bodies will continue to be funded by the Central Government and various “other sources” that currently exist.

Source: https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/no-time ... eadc30e712

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby Rayden6 » April 11th, 2022, 9:47 pm

Cause they never got the 200k submissions

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby timelapse » April 12th, 2022, 5:59 am

I wonder how soon Imbert will exempt himself from paying taxes for Trincity mall

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby 88sins » April 12th, 2022, 8:13 am

timelapse wrote:I wonder how soon Imbert will exempt himself from paying taxes for Trincity mall

sooner than you think
pretty sure they gonna rent out sections of it to gov't ministries

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby VexXx Dogg » April 12th, 2022, 8:21 am

Middle class shrinking, and not in a good way.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby zoom rader » April 12th, 2022, 10:18 am

VexXx Dogg wrote:Middle class shrinking, and not in a good way.
Heavy migration coming from mostly injun folk.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby hover11 » April 12th, 2022, 10:41 am

zoom rader wrote:
VexXx Dogg wrote:Middle class shrinking, and not in a good way.
Heavy migration coming from mostly injun folk.
Red Government ppl in they glee

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby zoom rader » April 12th, 2022, 11:24 am

hover11 wrote:
zoom rader wrote:
VexXx Dogg wrote:Middle class shrinking, and not in a good way.
Heavy migration coming from mostly injun folk.
Red Government ppl in they glee


Maybe so, but for those that migrated its only up for them and an improvement on Standard of living . Even Afro Trinis that migrated live a better life especially those that go to DC or Maryland.

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Re: Property Tax in Trinidad & Tobago

Postby The_Honourable » May 6th, 2022, 9:22 pm

Government has reached and surpassed the 50% threshold required for the implementation of the Property Tax.

Speaking in the Lower House on Friday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert says the numbers of returns received by the Office of the Commissioner of Valuations for residential properties reached almost 250,000.


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