The PPP yesterday said it will test AFC MPs in parliament at the next sitting over the latter’s call for a review of the controversial VAT on private education tuition.
In a statement yesterday, the PPP said that it “notes the recently adopted position of the Alliance for Change (AFC) that it will canvass Cabinet to review Value Added Tax (VAT) on private education. The PPP recalls that the AFC voted along with the APNU in imposing VAT on private education during the 2017 Budget debate when the accompanying VAT measures were being imposed in the National Assembly. In so doing the APNU+AFC rejected the PPP’s plea not to impose VAT on private education.
“At the next sitting of the National Assembly, the PPP will be moving a motion to remove VAT from private education. We expect that the AFC will vote in support of this motion.”
“The AFC is going to be pushing for a review and as I said we hope it comes sooner rather than later but at the end of the day we are a part of a coalition and are aware that sometimes pulling one string has corresponding consequences,” AFC Leader Raphael Trotman told Stabroek News last Thursday.
