Dear Editor,
The Receivers Office recently with great pride made it known that some 30,000 plus licence plates were sold. It may have been a statistical achievement but, when you drive on the airport strip, where most of the car rental operations are located you ask yourself why so many rentals in their compound are carrying French licence plates while operating out of Dutch St. Maarten.
Is this a sign that the government agency responsible for the issuance, regulating, and control of licence plates turned a blind eye which allowed this?
While the common man/woman can’t get away from taxation, and the threat of confiscation of their hard owned property these car rental operators enjoy cheating the government out of a much needed revenue.
The Mongoose is back, and will be monitoring this gross non-compliance of car rental operators avoiding and circumventing paying much needed revenue to government.
The Mongoose
