Ramadhar confirms that people will be "comfortable" with PP property tax plan

"We delivered our promise to remove the new property tax."

One of the men who was the most vocal critics of the Manning administration's Property Tax said Wednesday people in Trinidad and Tobago would "comfortable" with the new government's proposals.

Prakash Ramadhar, who is now Legal Affairs Minister in the People's Partnership Government, made the comment in response to charges by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley that the new tax would be more oppressive than the one the previous government had planned.

Ramadhar told reporters that is not true. 

"There is no return to the property tax as they envisage. We are returning the law to what it was before. That is really a statement that is inaccurate; the property tax which they have envisaged, we have removed that," Ramadhar said.

"If you have a low value with a high percentage, the net sum will be less than if you have a low percentage with an extremely high value, it is simple maths," he explained.

"The population was comfortable before with the rates that they were paying; we fought vociferously against it; we succeeded. We delivered our promise to remove the new property tax; we turn to the old position," he said.

Ramadhar assured reporters that the tax which the People's National Movement (PNM) proposed will not be implemented.