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ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga (front) and LBJ Medical Center chief executive officer Faumuina John Faumuina

Wage tax reduction discussion points to not all businesses paying their share

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While there are about 2,000 businesses in American Samoa only 506 of them paid into the government the 2% wage tax in fiscal year 2020, says ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga during yesterday’s Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing on a Senate bill to hike the...

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