EARTHQUAKE FLATTENS HAITI TAX OFFICE – BUT BACK-UPS SAVE ACCOUNTING RECORDS
February 1st, 2010
BY GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE
WHEN last month's earthquake flattened the tax office in Haiti, killing the director, many thought that it would take years to restore the country's tax and accounting system. The headquarters of the Direction Générale de Impôts (DGI) was destroyed and its director general Jean Frantz Richard died. "The tax administration was decapitated," said the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Haiti mission chief Corinne Deléchat later.
But amidst the physical and human damage that have set back the impoverished country for decades, ...
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