The headline in today\u2019s Chronicle captioned \u2018Another AFC leader linked to questionable ethical behaviour\u2026 NIGEL HUGHES IMPLICATED IN HARVEST COMPANY LTD\u2019S FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES\u2019, comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n
The Commissioner General has once again exposed his lack of independence and overt enthusiasm to do his master\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n
The issue with Harvest Company Limited is not the non-payment of PAYE as alleged but the imposition of interest and penalties by the Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority on Harvest on the capital sums of $468,000.00 and $2,337,110.00, while he waives interest and penalties for sums in excess of $70 million for a company, the proprietors of which are not known to be unsympathetic to the Government of the day.<\/p>\n
On the 22nd<\/sup> June 2012, the Company\u2019s Attorneys wrote to Mahendra Satra, GRA\u2019s Legal Officer, inquiring whether GRA\u2019s actions of attempting to levy on my Chambers were driven by political considerations. The letter was copied to the Commissioner General. A copy of the letter accompanies this release.<\/p>\n To date, we have received no response from either Mr. Satram or the Commissioner General.<\/p>\n A copy of the Judgement of Justice Rishi Persaud in the matter of the Revenue Authority V DIDCO Trading Company action CD 685\/09 in which the Commissioner General consented to the waiving of interest and penalties currently worth in excess of $70 million is also provided. It must be noted that this facility is not afforded other companies in similar positions.<\/p>\n On today\u2019s date, payment was effected tot eh GRA for the capital sums owed by Harvest Company Ltd and the receipts of these payments are attached.<\/p>\n Also on today\u2019s date, Harvest, through its Attorneys-at-Law, wrote to the Commissioner General asking if he could explain his decision to waive taxes for one taxpayer for sums in excess of $70 million when other taxpayers of a different hue must suffer a different fate for the same taxes.<\/p>\n While he is at it, the Commissioner General may wish to explain whether he ahs the same enthusiasm for collecting taxes from the Office of the President for certain contract employees and special advisors.<\/p>\n We ask for no special privileges, just equal rights and equal application of the law to all.<\/p>\n C.A. Nigel Hughes<\/p>\n Company Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The headline in today\u2019s Chronicle captioned \u2018Another AFC leader linked to questionable ethical behaviour\u2026 NIGEL HUGHES IMPLICATED IN HARVEST COMPANY LTD\u2019S FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES\u2019, comes as no surprise. The Commissioner General has once again exposed his lack of independence and overt enthusiasm to do his master\u2019s bidding. The issue with Harvest Company Limited is not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pressreleases","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-10W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}