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Land­lords across Trinidad and To­ba­go will soon be re­quired to for­mal­ly step in­to the tax net, as down­load­able reg­is­tra­tion forms for the new Land­lord Busi­ness Sur­charge be­come avail­able from March 1, 2026.

The Board of In­land Rev­enue (BIR) an­nounced this week that prepa­ra­tions are well ad­vanced to fa­cil­i­tate com­pli­ance ahead of the roll­out of the new tax mea­sure, in­tro­duced in the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get. Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo met with se­nior BIR of­fi­cials to re­view readi­ness for im­ple­men­ta­tion and ease the tran­si­tion for land­lords.

Un­der the new re­quire­ments, all land­lords must reg­is­ter their rental prop­er­ties with the BIR. The reg­is­tra­tion dead­line has been ex­tend­ed to May 30, from an ear­li­er cut-off of March 31, to al­low land­lords ad­di­tion­al time to reg­u­larise their af­fairs.