PHILIPSBURG:--- The Government of St. Maarten collected some 8.1 million guilders in road tax payments so far for the year 2014 said Minister of Finance Martin Hassink in an invited comment. Minister Hassink told SMN News that for the same period in 2013 government collected 5.8 million guilders.
The Finance Minister said based on figures he has, government still has to collect about half a million guilders more. "Government will collect about Naf. 75,000.00 as of April and that amount will decrease because most people already paid their road taxes for 2014."
In 2013, government collected some 7.2 million guilders in total. Therefore, government collected almost one million guilders more than that amount in the first quarter of 2014. During the same period in 2012 government collected 7.8 million guilders and 8.5 million guilders for that entire year.
