{"id":18872,"date":"2011-09-24T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T08:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=18872"},"modified":"2011-09-24T08:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T08:44:57","slug":"salary-cap-hike-for-revtax-director-now-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/salary-cap-hike-for-revtax-director-now-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary cap hike for Rev&#038;Tax director now law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>A bill raising the salary cap for the Division of Revenue and Taxation director from up to $42,000 to a maximum of $50,000 is now law, and Senate Vice President Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian) hopes that the vacant position will now attract qualified applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider\u2019s (R-Tinian) Senate Bill 17-51, House Draft 1 is now Public Law 17-52.<\/p>\n<p>The bill became law without the governor&#8217;s signature after the 40-day period lapsed without any action from the governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough this bill became law without the governor&#8217;s signature, the governor is in full support of this bill,\u201d special assistant for programs and legislative review Vicky Guerrero said in a Sept. 22 letter to House Speaker Eli Cabrera (R-Saipan) and Senate President Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota).<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, the salary for the Department of Finance\u2019s other unclassified division chiefs and special assistants is capped at $40,800. Exempted from this cap is the Revenue and Taxation director, who will receive a salary of not more than $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider said that raising the salary cap for the Rev&amp;Tax director was one of the recommendations by the Senate Tax Policy and Enforcement Review Committee last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe task force found out that the salary of the Rev&amp;Tax director was unattractive to qualified applicants and that&#8217;s why it has remained vacant for three years,\u201d Hofschneider told Saipan Tribune. The position has been vacant since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of a Rev&amp;Tax director has been affecting the enforcement of poker regulations and delays in the release of tax refunds and rebates, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this bill becoming law, we hope that the administration will be able to hire a director for the division, which is responsible for tax collections and enforcement of tax laws,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter A bill raising the salary cap for the Division of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}