Dear Editor,
Lolita Hick’s letter in SN of May 2, 2008 (‘No income tax refund’) caught my attention and has caused me to revisit a personal matter which I had with disgust, abandoned approximately two years ago.
The attached letter previously handwritten was addressed to GRA Commissioner Sattaur and was hand delivered by me. After numerous telephone calls and three visits to the GRA in the GPO office on Robb Street, with no resolution, I gave up.
“Dear Sir,
“This letter is by no means intended to jeopardize or embarrass any of your staff but to seek immediate intervention.
“Briefly, I was contracted to the Georgetown Public Hospital as CEO which I served from May 1998 to April 2001. My monthly PAYE income tax was nearly $G100,000.
“Sometime in the year 2002 I submitted a professionally prepared tax return to your office in New Amsterdam by hand. After waiting one year I began making enquiries in Berbice, I was told that my file was forwarded to Georgetown. Since that time I have made several telephone calls and have visited the GPO on a number of occasions only to be told that my file has been processed then it had been misplaced, now lost.
Sir it is now over four years, I have been played like a squash ball. I will soon attain age 69 years. Need I say more? I need your help. I am a remigrant who lived abroad for nearly 50 years.
“I will now give you my file # 646-245-1 as provided by one Mr London. I have discussed this matter with as I recall:
Dawn Primo
Mrs Reman
Mrs Bobb
Mr London
And others I cannot now recall.
“You will see from my business card and the contents of this missive that I am a person of some substance.
“Please respond as soon as your busy schedule allows…”
Yours faithfully,
George L. Munroe
