Task force formed to collect land lease fees, businesses first to be targeted. | SMN News

May 27, 2020

~ government still working with unions to seal an agreement.~

PHILIPSBURG:--- Minister of VROMI Egbert Jurendy Doran and Minister of Finance Ardwell Irion met on Tuesday to begin putting a task force in place that will go after delinquent businesses that have not been paying government years of lease land fees. SMN News asked the Ministers if they were looking at alternative ways to collect money that is owed to the government to improve the government’s liquidity problems.
Minister of VROMI Doran said that since taking office he has seen a number of businesses that are not

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