Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member Juan Edghill last Monday requested that Region One provide verification of the existence of 68 employees on its payroll, following the region’s failure after two years to ensure the acquisition of the Tax Identification Number (TIN) certificates.
“I would like to have verification that these 68 persons exist. Because if they don’t have a TIN certificate and they’re being paid, PAC would want to be satisfied that they’re being paid,” he stated at a hearing.
The 2016 Auditor General’s report recorded that at the end of 2016, the region had 68 employees who were without TIN numbers, a situation that it noted could have implications for the payment of taxes.
