Dear Editor,
On Tuesday night I was at the airport to pick up my wife, I saw facing the arriving guests a very large billboard advertising Bai Shan Lin International Mall. As the Chairman of MCG Investments Inc, the owners of the Giftland Mall, I am concerned and I am kindly publicly requesting from the Finance Ministry and GRA Commissioner, who I do not hold accountable in any way, the details of these two mentioned investments which were concluded before the advent of the current leadership of these two Government departments.
For the record, Giftland Mall received no concessions for anything from the previous Administration in terms of Duty Fee, VAT Waivers, Tax Holidays, Tax exemptions of any sort etc. In fairness to our investment and parity between local investment and international enterprises such as these, it is important that there be a level playing field, I would find it abhorrent if it is a case that multi billion international companies should be treated with preferential treatment and unfair trading advantages over local companies. I eagerly await a response from the two mentioned departments.
Yours faithfully,
Roy Beepat
Chairman
Giftland Group
