A Huge Lie!
That’s the way Finance Minister Colm Imbert described the claims by United National Congress leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar that government was planning to impose a 25% “inheritance tax.”
According to Imbert, the opposition leader is trying to mislead the public.
Persad-Bissessar made the claim at a political meeting on Monday night.
In a Twitter post yesterday, Imbert stated, “The Leader of the Opposition is spreading a false and malicious rumour that the Government plans to impose a 25 per cent inheritance tax on citizens who receive money or property from the estate of a deceased person. This is a huge LIE, clearly designed to upset the voting population.”