APNU promises tax threshold of $100,000, VAT of 10%, if elected

Lance Carberry

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) says that should it assume office it will immediately raise the income-tax threshold to $100,000 and reduce the Value-Added Tax (VAT) from 16 per cent to 10 per cent.

Addressing a news conference yesterday, APNU member Lance Carberry said that an APNU-led government will immediately stop the trend of the Jagdeo administration of using “hard-earned Guyanese taxpayer’s monies to reward its corrupt class of parasitic political cronies, through the arbitrary and discriminatory use of ministerial