The Government of Anguilla is to charge a tax on money being sent outside the island through Western Union at Lake’s Supermarket – and MoneyGram at the General Post Office.
The tax measure is called “Money Transmission Levy.” According to a statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the decision is “to provide for a transaction levy on money transmitted out of Anguilla such as Western Union and MoneyGram.”
It means that persons in Anguilla sending money to family members in the Dominican Republic, and other places, and seen doing so at Western Union and the General Post Office, on a weekly basis, will be required to pay the levy.
Concerned persons have commented that this levy is a third payment by workers, in Anguilla, from their salaries. They claim that the workers would have already made their social security payments as well as the Interim Stabilisation Levy.
