This a C&P from this site
"Sports fishing to pay taxes
As of January, owners of sports fishing boats will pay taxes in the DR. Decree 111-01 requires all sports fishing boats to be taxed according to size from RD$1,500 to RD$7,000. Speed boats will be taxed RD$200 to RD$2,000, also depending on size. Each fish brought on board will have to pay the state RD$250.
The new tax also applies to fish caught by scuba divers. Hoy newspaper reports that the decree was
issued at the request of the Ministry of Environment. The decree aims to control the conservation and use of coastal, maritime and wetlands areas and to provide research funds."
On the surface a great idea-IF the taxes are collected in a fair and transparent manner & then don't 'leak away'.
What I don't understand is how every dead Tuna, Dorado and Marlin is going to 'pony up' the dough-RD$250.00 per as it says.
Now seriously I realise that the grammar/syntax has been turned around in translation but the numbers for each Pescado are far too high.
RD$250 is $25 Canadian dollars for each fish!!
Surely they don't expect any Sportfisherman to pay that much?Those kind of charges can do 2 things-kill a business/open the way up to (yet more) corruption.
I suspect that this new tax is aimed at Sportfishing Boats from Puerto Rico who have been crossing the Mona Passage to use the Marina at Punta Cana at times-a certain amount of jealousy is to be expected when sharp, smart operators open up in a small backward market like the DR.
"Sports fishing to pay taxes
As of January, owners of sports fishing boats will pay taxes in the DR. Decree 111-01 requires all sports fishing boats to be taxed according to size from RD$1,500 to RD$7,000. Speed boats will be taxed RD$200 to RD$2,000, also depending on size. Each fish brought on board will have to pay the state RD$250.
The new tax also applies to fish caught by scuba divers. Hoy newspaper reports that the decree was
issued at the request of the Ministry of Environment. The decree aims to control the conservation and use of coastal, maritime and wetlands areas and to provide research funds."
On the surface a great idea-IF the taxes are collected in a fair and transparent manner & then don't 'leak away'.
What I don't understand is how every dead Tuna, Dorado and Marlin is going to 'pony up' the dough-RD$250.00 per as it says.
Now seriously I realise that the grammar/syntax has been turned around in translation but the numbers for each Pescado are far too high.
RD$250 is $25 Canadian dollars for each fish!!
Surely they don't expect any Sportfisherman to pay that much?Those kind of charges can do 2 things-kill a business/open the way up to (yet more) corruption.
I suspect that this new tax is aimed at Sportfishing Boats from Puerto Rico who have been crossing the Mona Passage to use the Marina at Punta Cana at times-a certain amount of jealousy is to be expected when sharp, smart operators open up in a small backward market like the DR.