The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) came in for questioning yesterday for its handling of the reported disappearance and return of two vehicles from a private warehouse where they were being stored, without any clearance from customs.
The 2015 Report of the Auditor General (AG) on the GRA’s Customs and Trade Administration showed several instances where vehicles and equipment were removed from warehouses without first being cleared by Customs and without duties and taxes being paid. These cases were documented in the AG’s report, but particular emphasis was placed yesterday by the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on an incident in 2016, where there may have been an attempt to cover up discrepancies between the
