VAT officials should ensure that businesses do not use VAT to exploit consumers

Dear Editor,

Each day one can read in the newspaper how people cannot afford to buy daily products at the markets, supermarkets, stores, etc, and each time, the VAT team tells the various unions and concerned citizens that they need to educate themselves more about VAT.

I understand there might be some Guyanese who are not fully aware of VAT and how it is supposed to work, but I would blame the Guyana Revenue Authority for not ensuring that the various businesses adhere to the law. In a SN article, ‘The reality is that poor consumers can’t cope