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Ke­jan Haynes

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo has an­nounced that the Board of In­land Rev­enue will be re­con­sti­tut­ed and ex­pand­ed to nine com­mis­sion­ers as part of amend­ments to the In­come Tax Act.

The new board will in­clude six pub­lic of­fi­cers from the In­land Rev­enue Di­vi­sion, up from the pre­vi­ous five. It will al­so now in­clude an at­tor­ney with at least ten years’ ex­pe­ri­ence, an ac­coun­tant with at least ten years’ ex­pe­ri­ence, and a per­ma­nent sec­re­tary from the Min­istry of Fi­nance serv­ing as an ex of­fi­cio com­mis­sion­er.