tax office
Local residents wait their turn to file their 2022 Taxes at the Tax Office on the ground floor of the A.P. Lutali Executive Office Building last week. In previous years, people stood in line waiting to be served, but this year, people pick up a ticket number and wait to be called. As a result, it’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “In our view, the Tax Office was not effective in enforcing collection efforts and its records indicated a significant number of businesses have outstanding unpaid taxes and balances were delinquent,” wrote acting Territorial Auditor, Tofa Sualauvi H. Su’a in late...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If the Administration’s bill that was sent to the Fono last week allowing Treasury to distribute the Advance Child Tax Credit using funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is approved by the Fono and signed by the Governor, tax payers with children will...
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...
Last Friday morning at the A.P. Lutali Executive Office Building in Utulei, local residents wait their turn to be called by the Tax Office to file their taxes. People sign in and their names are called to go to the office. All are required to wear face masks — but social distancing, as seen in this...