PHILIPSBURG:--- Member of Parliament wants to know if an agreement has been reached between government and the Social and Health Insurance (SZV) and The General Pension Fund (APS). The Committee for Financial Supervision (CFT) on several occasions had urged government to come to an agreement as to how it will pay the arrears of these funds. The member is extremely concerned as he understands that the outstanding amounts owed to these institutions are almost a combined 300 million guilders. He will be sending a letter to the Minister of Finance requesting the exact amount owed and whether an agreement has been reached between them. An instruction is apparently looming over the head of government and this has to be avoided at all costs. Any instruction will not be in the benefit of the people. He wants to know if any payments are being made at present to the SZV and The APS since the amounts keep increasing. What he needs clarity on also is the disputed amounts between the SZV and government. Is it a matter of accounting in other words improper record keeping? The reason he is asking this has to do with the compliance audit of the 2013 Financial Statements. The General Auditing Chamber says and I quote; "there are uncertainties due to the lack of information needed to verify the accounts" end of quote. The Member of Parliament also wants to know what kind of proposals were put on the table because in an article appearing in one of the daily newspaper of April it was mentioned that several meetings had taken place. On another issue but related due to its financial nature is the court rulings on the two court cases held involving the St. Maarten Island Receiver's and the AUC and the Inspectorate of Taxes and the AUC. According to the Minister a ruling was already made in February and another was expected in March. We are now in the Middle of May. The Minister should be in possession of these court rulings or verdicts since it regards two departments which fall under his Ministry. The people must know what the outcome of these court cases were. We are talking about the people's tax money to the tune of some 100 million guilders.
