Vrey well said Sebastien. I totally agree with this decision...

Katia says...

Vrey well said Sebastien.

I totally agree with this decision to charge 1% of every transfer from the diaspora if there won't be any mimi miaw in this government to run with these funds.

Haiti would be on its way to development finally.

But let me tell you how I feel it should be instead, the 1% should be taken out of the receiver's amount not from me in the diaspora.

for ex: when I send US $100 to Haiti, they should give $99 to the receiver and I should pay what I always paid before.

The reason that I think like that is that I don't live in Haiti, I live in the diaspora.

and I pay taxes from my hard earned income to receive services here. People in Haiti should learn to do the same. Money that they receive is their income, so they have to learn to pay taxes on every source of income that they have. that's the way we do it here. We have millions of maids, housemen, street vendors, seamstresses, housefront merchants, shoe cleaners, porters,they earn very little and yet they have huge responsabilities, and I understand.

But, when they are sick or need to register their kids to a public school, they used a subsidized service most of the time without contributing to the maintenance of the service.

No clear idea from my part how if ever, they will decide to plan that way how they would do that, because most of these kind of folks do not have adresses, they don't have a social security number, they cannot file taxes.

it's a very complexe case. Martelly should try to organize the people first by identifying everyone with a social security number first and then start collecting taxes on anything they make so they can reduce service cost and create new useful ones.
Haiti scares me. now that I have been living the way that people should leave.

Never imagine that Haiti should have a 911 services to help in different troubling situations?

who would pay for such service, how thay will reach the individual in distress when all roads are filled with trash, rubbles, corridors, no adresses, and most importantly what if they had all the above?

Where would they take the person?

ayayay tonerre! lopital general?

where, how, That's exactly why in this day and age we have a higher death rate than France had in the 1600. So on this note, All haitians in Haiti small incomes and bigo bigo incomes should pay what they have to pay in order for the country to come out of this....

I cannot even say the word. Thank you for reading my lengty comment.

The topic is: Martelly intend to charge $1 more for every $100 you send to Haiti
This is a reply to Msg 28321
Posted by Katia on April 27 2011 at 10:15 PM

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Tiba, I hear you loud and clear. If Martelly is serious about reforming Haiti and attracting investment then the first place to start is the custom in Haiti. That is the most corrupt institution other than the Haitian presidency. He needs to take > >
Jynee, 26-Apr-11 9:02 pm
did you meam that I have to pay taxes for haiti when I can not even efford to pay mi bills here and always find a way to sent at least $ 100 a month to haiti just for food not include the money that I spend for children that are in university.Wi > >
Fuck, 27-Apr-11 12:47 pm
some of you Haitians need to understand love of country. do you even know what love means? there can't be love without sacrifice. you claim to love Haiti but you are not willing to do a damn thing to contribute to its advancement. so enough with the > >
Jynee, 27-Apr-11 2:23 pm
Jynne, Micky should not tax us rather he should ask for 20% or 25% of their profits like the Quebecker's government did it in the 1990 to finance education in Quebec. Many Arab Transfer houses and African ones had closed their businesses and the Que > >
Toulimen Legrand, 27-Apr-11 7:18 pm
Hi mrs would be happy to help haiti do you know how many people I help every month on my little pay check. I could said the same as every body that claim that they are not haitian. but the love for the place I was born is stronger than you think.How > >
Fuck, 27-Apr-11 7:55 pm
Vrey well said Sebastien. I totally agree with this decision to charge 1% of every transfer from the diaspora if there won't be any mimi miaw in this government to run with these funds. Haiti would be on its way to development finally. But let me t > >
Katia, 27-Apr-11 10:15 pm
how the government in Haiti take the money matter not to me, whether they take it off the receiver or the sender or the money transfer companies. the point is Haiti is not going nowhere unti Haitians suck it up and put their money where their mouth i > >
Jynee, 28-Apr-11 12:54 am
I beleive you miss my point. I do not say that taking taxes is not important, but I emphasize on teaching the population on learning how to take care of itself. what you seem to want is just to provide, provide, give and give for ever.when the econom > >
Katia, 28-Apr-11 8:17 pm
you make a good point. the goverment have a lot of place to look for money. As diaspora we already did a lot for the country. as example few months ago one of my cousin got sick and I had to borrow from the cash advance $500 to send to her think abo > >
Fucks, 28-Apr-11 9:51 pm
I had to send my cuz 600 for her to get a new place, i had to pay the transfer fee, so if they charge me an extra $6, what difference does it make to me, i alread send 650 so what is an extra 6 dollars? if you are not generous to non-family, then you > >
Jynee, 28-Apr-11 11:10 pm
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