A foul odour caused a temporary shutdown of the Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) office on King Street in downtown Kingston on Thursday, as workers walked off the job with conflicting reports of the source of the stink.

TAJ officials said that the information they had was that the foul smell was from the body of a dead animal but disgruntled workers were adamant that the issue was much more than that, and has been plaguing them for sometime.

TAJ Director of Communications Merris Haughton told the Jamaica Observer that the foul smell was caused by an animal that had died in the area.