St. Maarten Private Eye

THe thing about the 1% increase in TOT is just for the island government to finance their deficit to the central government. The increase will go directly to Willemstad to pay for the AOV or govenment pension fund which St.Maarten neglected to pay over many many years. What will happen is your daily items purchased will become more expensive. The wholesaler sells to retailer @ 4% increase the retailer sell to the consumer another 4%=8% increase on top of their operational cost.
There's also a new condo tax coming up, but if you purchased you lovely Condo from a US based company and you're not registered on the island how are they going to collect. Remember, many home or condo owners come to the island as tourists. And who will determine a condo from a house or high end apartment. I guess the lawyers will find the loopholes in this one right away.

There's absolutly no money for new roads, thanks to ROY, but we still find a way to lower the number plate fee. Why can't we sell, like Anquilla, a temp license fee to drive. The fee can be collected from the rental car company, and it stays here. I see no reason why we cannot pay a garbage collection fee, which can go toward environmental concerns and a suitable solution for our dump, which by the way was smoking like hell @ 3pm this week.

How are we going to pay for this genius of an idea of a road thru the lagoon and the road from caybay around to cayhill belair area? The idea to make the arnell rd, which folks call the cakehouse rd, a two way rd, so we'll need 2more roundabouts, to keeps us going round and round.
I think it's time to tax casino's based on the drop. All we need to do is find some honest controllers- that might be wishful thinking.