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Fiji: State Strengthens Water Tax System
Source: fijitimes.com
Source Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011
Focus: Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
Country: Fiji
Created: Apr 19, 2011

THE Government has made amendments to the Water Resource Tax Promulgation of 2008.

The amendments under the Water Resource Tax (Amendment) Decree 2011 came into force on April 1.

The water resource tax is payable by any business extracting water (less wastage) of 15 per cent.

Amendments have also been made to ensure that accountable persons shall, within seven working days, pay the controller any water resource tax that has been payable since the previous month.

The amendment decree also allows the controller to station a proper officer in the premises of a business that is extracting water from its natural state, for the purpose of bottling or packaging for sale.

The officer may be stationed to watch the process of such business from the point of extracting water from its natural state up to the bottling and packaging for sale of that water.

And the officer may also be stationed at the water bottling plant to enforce the company's compliance with the promulgation.

If requested to do so by the controller, then such businesses shall provide office accommodation to the comptroller's satisfaction at or adjacent to the premises of such businesses for such use of a proper officer.

Any business falling under the promulgation is guilty of an offence if it fails to comply with a request made to them in accordance with subsection two, and is liable to a fine on conviction.
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