Privy Council to decide former diplomat’s $366,000 tax case

The Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say in a more than decade-long le­gal bat­tle be­tween a for­mer diplo­mat and the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion over a de­nied ve­hi­cle tax ex­emp­tion.

Ear­li­er this week, the Court of Ap­peal grant­ed for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Con­sul Gen­er­al to the Unit­ed States Dr Anil Ram­nanan leave to pur­sue a fi­nal ap­peal be­fore the coun­try’s high­est ap­pel­late court.

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Ram­nanan, rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Navin­dra Ram­nanan, is ar­gu­ing that both the Tax Ap­peal Board and the Court of Ap­peal were wrong to re­ject his chal­lenge.