Munnings Sues Tax Department Over $183K Claim

Businessman Andrew Munnings is taking the Belize Tax Service to court after being named on their list of big tax defaulters. Back in June, BTS claimed he owed more than one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars in unpaid taxes. But Munnings says that’s not true, he insists the department got its math wrong. Things escalated when he spent a night behind bars before being released the next day. Now, he’s fighting back with a lawsuit. Today, we asked him for details on his case.

 

Andrew Munnings, Businessman

“Every time we have been in court over the past two [months], I told him, you are taxing me wrong. Andrew Munnings is not a funeral home owner. I’m a funeral director, which means, you are in this office, right now. Do you see any casket being built here? No. Those stuff are outsourced. So once a family brings five thousand dollars, that five thousand is split up in fourteen different ways to rent this and rent that and pay for this. So when I get anything outta that, you woulda seh wa six hundred dollars?. I have my overhead, I have my staff, I have gas, and all of these kind of stuff, right? So what happens from here and everything, the lawsuit that you are now seeing that is public. That lawsuit wasn’t filed for what happened forty-eight hours ago, that last route was in place for a well, because like I tell you, for the past three months, we have been in contact with the Department of Tax, and we have told them you guys are assessing us wrong. They do not want to take accountability at all.”