Tax free overtime reinstated for bauxite workers

Bauxite workers will once again see no taxes levied on their overtime wages as government yesterday announced the reinstatement of their ‘no tax to overtime’ policy that was removed under the PPP/C administration in 2007.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday told a press conference that the decision was made at Cabinet’s meeting on Tuesday.

He pointed out that in 1988 bauxite workers were granted tax-free concessions on