Tax payments convenient both for customers and tax offices

As per latest reports made by Viralee Lattibeaudiere, Acting Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), more and more Jamaicans are resorting to the department’s online facility when paying their taxes.

The online facility called by Mrs. Lattibeaudiere as the Virtual Collectorate has experienced a significant increase in popularity with the taxpayers which makes it one of the most used collectorates in the country.

Using this facility, customers may pay property tax, GCT, special consumption tax (SCT), traffic fines, hotel licence fees and betting tax.

"In the last year and a half we have noticed a significant increase in the usage of the virtual tax collectorate, particularly for the payment of General Consumption Tax (GCT), property tax and traffic fines. Right now it occupies 7th position in terms of collection among our 29 collectorates islandwide," said Viralee Lattibeaudiere.

"We are encouraging the taxpayers to really use this facility (online), as our physical facility.just cannot take the taxing crowd on the last day," she explained.