Tax practice notice didn’t identify all compliant professionals -GRA

Khurshid Sattaur

The Guyana Revenue Autho-rity (GRA) has said that the professionals it identified in a recent notice are not the only ones compliant with the Tax Act.

The GRA clarification in the name of Commissioner-General Khurshid Sattaur comes in wake of a Kaieteur News report, headlined “Only 17 lawyers in Guyana authorized to charge fees” and published in its Sunday September 29, 2013 edition, which suggested that those professionals not named in the notice were in breach of the Tax Act of Guyana and were without a valid Profes-sional Practice Certificate.

The professionals listed in the notice comprised the latest batch who were issued with Tax Practice Certificates as recent as September 15, the GRA explained in a statement issued yesterday, while contending that the newspaper’s “contemptuous deduction” that because a particular professional’s name did not appear on the