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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...

![ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga (front) and LBJ Medical Center chief executive officer Faumuina John Faumuina, as the pair exit the Senate chamber yesterday morning following a committee hearing on a Senate bill to hike the tobacco tax and reduce the 2% wage tax. [photo: FS] ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga (front) and LBJ Medical Center chief executive officer Faumuina John Faumuina](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/malemo_n_faumuina.jpg?itok=0HGZcgUU)