Goods brought on Captain Ali gathering taxes: SLRCS
By Gandhya Senanayake
The 27 aid containers containing 884 tons of essential food items, medicine and equipment meant for the IDPs sent in the ship named “Captain Ali” by well wishers from abroad, has been held up for over almost four months in the port with no signs yet of reaching its intended recipients, the IDP’s.
Mr. Surein Peiris, Deputy Director General of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) speaking to Daily Mirror Online told that his Chairman had written to the government pointing out that if these delays continue and taxes and continued demurrages continue to mount they would be forced to wash its hands off the aid brought for the IDPs and hand it over to the government.
He said that although they received a written waiver of port charges from the Ministry of Ports last week other government taxes still have to be paid. The request for the waiver of the taxes has not had a positive response he added. The Valued Added Tax (VAT) and the Nation Building Tax (NBT) for the period July to September 22 for the now forgotten cargo is estimated at Rs. 2 million.
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