est. 2007

Barbados Underground

Bringing News and Opinions to the People

They Want Us to Eat Ass

Submitted by Caswell Frankyn On May 30, 2017 the Minister of Finance, Christopher Sinckler, increased the rate of the National Social Responsibility Levy (NSRL) from 2% to 10%.  After a public outcry, the Minister relented and exempted the items in the VAT free Basket of Goods from the payment of the NSRL as well. That…

,
Submitted by Caswell Frankyn

On May 30, 2017 the Minister of Finance, Christopher Sinckler, increased the rate of the National Social Responsibility Levy (NSRL) from 2% to 10%.  After a public outcry, the Minister relented and exempted the items in the VAT free Basket of Goods from the payment of the NSRL as well.

That move was welcomed by many persons, some of whom did not even know what was contained in the Basket of Goods.  I must confess that I am one of the persons who was not familiar with the items in the basket.

I downloaded a copy and started to peruse it.  One of the items jumped out at me.  I could not believe my eyes.  Government actually exempted, from the payment of VAT and now NSRL, the edible offal of ASSES.
I had my doubts but now I am absolutely convinced that this Government does not care.

THEY WANT US TO EAT ASS.

Read the VAT fee list of Basket of Goods.

57 responses to “They Want Us to Eat Ass”

  1. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Wonder if they putting ass meat in

    “1 in 5 sausages tested across Canada contained different meat than labelled,”

    1 in 5 sausages tested across Canada contained different meat than labelled, study finds

  2. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Caswell
    By the way, if you want to find out where ass is sold, you might be able to find out from Bushie, who was last seen around the Garrison.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Just saw this bit of self-incriminating evidence from you…

    It clearly was NOT Bushie that you saw…
    but what were YOU doing at the Garrison surveying asses?

    Wait Boss… you into Polling now too….?

  3. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Bushie

    I am not following down that road. I don’t know how to poll, don’t inspect or in anyway handle any poles.

    Sent from my iPad

  4. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Horse meat is legal in France; in the UK it is not; we have just jailed a meat trader for passing off horse meat as beef. Just as big a problem is imported beef stuffed with hormones and chicken injected with antibiotics. What about eggs and salmonella?
    Do we have environmental health officers?

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sausage-science-1.4234568

    The horse meat is probably from discarded old race horses or horses too sick to be useful.

  6. Peltdownman Avatar
    Peltdownman

    The list in the basket of goods is actually made up of extracts from the customs tariff. The one quoted by Caswell comes under tariff heading 02.06, so in order to include heart and liver from sheep and cattle, the whole tariff code has to be quoted. Don’t tell me that a man a with Caswell’s knowledge didn’t know this.

  7. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Peltdownman

    You know what you just wrote is utter rubbish. When formulating the Basket of Goods, there was absolutely no need to quote all the items under any particular tariff head. You simply pick out the items that you want in the basket. For example, they could have said edible offal of bovine animals, sheep, goats and pigs and not include anything else.

    You might not know that I worked in the Price Control Division in the 1980s and we had a negative list. Pen knives were allowed to be imported but ratchet knives that were also pen knives were banned and remains banned to this day. You do not quote all of the items under a particular head or else all types of pen knives would be banned.

    Sent from my iPad

Older Comments
1 2

The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.

Trending

Discover more from Barbados Underground

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading