THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries, Lisa Cummins, made some interesting comments as it relates to the Budget.
I do not agree with her. I believe that businesses small, medium or large must stand up to all their statutory requirements. I also understand that small business people in particular need to pay their national insurance for that rainy day which is always above.
We in Barbados cry out about taxes, personal or corporate, without appreciating the roads, schools, health care facilities, welfare system and all the other things which this money must be used to prop up.
I once lived in the US and was faced with federal, state and municipal taxes. The IRS did not take excuses. They are many examples of well-known people who evaded and avoided paying at some time, but in the end Uncle Sam demanded and got his pound of flesh.
There is no need to go underground. The earth may very well cave in.
– MAUREEN HAYNES