GST Dept. looks into $4 parking charge at airport
Last week we reported on the increase in parking fee at the Philip Goldson International Airport. It went from three dollars and fifty cents to four dollars, more than the two and a half percent increase since the implementation on April first of the GST. The airport management said the GST was the cause of the fifty cent increase, but a twenty five cent increase would have more than covered the two and a half percent GST. So why the huge increase? And who gets the extra funds collected from the parking meter? After the News Five story aired last week, a GST supervisor called the airport to enquire into the matter of the exorbitant price increase. The explanation was that the machine was experiencing problems in accepting the twenty-five cent coins. Apparently, it was designed to accept the jagged edges of the dollar coin and the round surface of the twenty five cent piece has been causing it to jam. The airport authority said that whatever revenues they collect, the twelve point five percent tax would be reported to the GST department. The GST representative today told News Five they will verify the revenues collected and see if the twelve point five percent is reported after May fifteenth, the deadline for filing GST returns.
what a shame people. stop using the machine and pay someone to give the tickets like in the border but not be too smart to use the machine to make some extra cents, we’re in harship right now, can’t they realize it.
Simple – Get a bus north and fly out of Cancun. Might take 1/2 a day longer, but it will be cheaper!
Wonder if the owners have paid the G.O.B. the millions it borrowed when it was privatised, or the millions lost through being sued by the Lufthansa group that were promised the privatised deal, only to have the rug pulled out from under them in favour of a group led by the then prime Ministers Brother Billy??????? ( All losses paid – with OUR money!!!). – Same with Port of Belize – 38 Million to dredge the area, only to sell it to a crony, on credit for an unspecified figure (No doubt much less than the taxpayers money used). I wonder if that debt has been paid? should have been by now, judging by the costs of importing anything into the country! (Incidentally, one of the main reasons for the high prices of everything, and higher cost of living, as we import 95% of what we use). Probably not on both counts – so much revenues in taxes & duties, and besides, they all hve their snouts in the same trough anyway!
I am not surprise about the parking fee going up, if they can charge $25.00 for Rice and Beans and Chicken in the restaurant that just goes to prove that anyone connected to the airport is heartless and money hungry. Cancun and all of Mexico will continue to do better with tourism because Belize motto is “Let’s make a killing when they come here if they never come back who cares” doesn’t sound smart to me but then I have a conscience that seems to be the ingredient that is missing in 99.9% of Belizeans these days. So So SAD!!!!!!!
so y just they make it $3.00 being the qyarters are getting jammed…… COME ON…. how much do you all wanna take….