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Jan 18, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am bemused by the article in Stabroek News [January 15, 2015] – Gov’t drops tax on fuel for miners by 10 %. This decision by the Gov’t comes only a week after the Miners Association [ GGDMA] met with APNU and expressed their frustration that the playing field is not level i.e. foreigners are getting incentives including duty free fuel denied to Guyanese miners.
Well an identical situation occurs in the timber industry. It is alleged that these Asian owned companies who are here exporting our prime logs in huge volume on a weekly basis are getting similar incentives that Guyanese do not enjoy. Many of the hundreds of trucks imported duty free haul sand daily on the east bank road for a private housing development. However, more importantly these operators are getting duty free fuel. In fact I have also noticed a bulk storage diesel tank being erected by one these Asians at Land of Canaan and I must be candid, I am very worried with what I suspect will take place upon completion.
Clearly it is prudent for us, value added timber processors to meet with APNU also.
Howard Bulkan
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