| PUP Demands That GOB Lower Fuel Tax |
| Fri, September 22, 2017 |
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The PUP is demanding that government lower fuel prices by reducing its tax take. A late evening release quotes Party Leader John Brice as saying, quote, "the People's United Party will not stand on the sidelines and just watch the government saddle the backs of the Belizean people with these exorbitant fuel prices." Briceno says forty-three percent of the pump price is collected by Government in the form of taxes."
A statement says "The PUP is calling on the government to immediately reduce the taxes on fuel."
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