GRTU wants names of convicted VAT defaulters

Chamber of SMEs asks minister for details of entrepreneurs in prison on VAT offences.

3 August 2012, 12:00am

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The Chamber of SMEs have asked the minister for justice Chris Said to present them with details of businesspeople who were convicted on VAT offences.

The GRTU said it wanted to know the number of prison inmates serving time due to VAT-related offences, and the terms they are serving, and how many of them are specifically serving time due to the non-payment of penalties.

Prisons do not fall within the remit of justice minister Chris Said, but the GRTU said it will forward its request to the Prime Minister, who has taken charge of the home affairs portfolio since the resignation of Carm Mifsud Bonnici.

"This issue has been a bone of serious contention between GRTU and the PN in government since the introduction of VAT," the GRTU said.

"The two 'John Dalli' VAT Acts have been unnecessarily cruel on entrepreneurs given that VAT-registered entrepreneurs were forced at law to become tax collectors without any compensation whatsoever, with all the extremely rigorous and time-consuming and excessively bureaucratic procedures involved."

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What about GRTU bazuzli with tampered VAT cash registers or tampered fiscal reciepts software.This has become worse than Chicago gangster era.And the people who ought to see and control these things "Alla jbierek" know nothing.....OMERTA.Basta niftahru bis-somma meta nghamlu l-kampanja gbir ta fondi.Viva Malta.

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I do not think the villains are inside, so I do not see why they are chasing Chris Said. But if the GRTU is seeking VAT evaders they should find a great plenty on the outside!!