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Foreign Affairs Pretext?
That a foreign affairs minister introduces a tax bill to introduce a value added tax system seems strange not only to Senator Buaserau of Fiji whom the Fiji Times Online reports to have asked that the bill be returned to the cabinet for resubmission by the ficance minister.
In Senator Attacks VAR Bill, Frederica Elbournce on October 5, 2006 relates the Senator's additional concern that the bill may come into force in a decree rather than a statute passed by parliament.
A further issue is whether the tax provisions had been demanded by the United States or the American Embassy in Fiji. In one of those cases, the senator proposes to use the process as precedent in negotiations with the United States.
Presumably, the American involvement is limited to reciprocal tax exemptions under the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular privileges. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.
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