Monday at the Fort-Royal Petit-Goâve Hotel, the General Directorate of Taxes (DGI) launched the project to assess the fiscal potentialities of communes in the region of Palmes.

This project concerns Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve and Vialet and aims in particular: to evaluate and improve the tax revenues of these 3 cities; to identify the tax population; to broaden the tax base; to strengthen the staff, to boost the fiscal motivation; to develop tax incentive mechanisms and to inculcate community members with a tax culture.

Note that the tax contribution of Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve and Vialet is around 1%, hence the need to make every effort to broaden the tax base. To achieve this, officials are counting on training and increasing municipal staff, conducting a statistical study of the internal revenues of the DGI and the external revenues of the communities and on the creation of new taxes or the integration of new taxpayers.

The speakers took care to establish the difference between state taxes and local taxes "Paying the tax" is a citizen's duty," said officials of the DGI.

Among the personalities who participated in this launch, it is worth to mentioning among others: Lubonheur Lorédant Deputy Director General of the DGI, Henri Clsude César, Director of the Directorate of Analysis and Statisques of the DGI, the Director of the Office of Petit-Goâve and the Deputy Mayor, Délor Desgranges...

A municipal authority in Petit-Goâve said it was in favor of the forced recovery of mucipal taxes. However, the question of the application of new fiscal measures in Petit-Goâve, although essential, is raised, as he risk of angering residents at the announcement of these new measures and the capacity of the municipality has to face the possible social disorders...

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)