A French businessman met with me over the week and lectured me on how the government of Seychelles has fallen victim to a cumulative fraud on the tax system, resulting in evasion of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars over the years. Government has stayed silent, ignored the issue, allowed the clandestine money washing to go on under Hire Craft Licenses, without a peep.
Bareboat Charters Bank Overseas, Anchor on the Coral
The most numerous of these clandestine operations ignored by Government of Seychelles, quite possibly because some of the boat owners are Le Pep party members he says, is the bareboat charter industry. The French- Informant advises me these companies do not own the he boats they bring to Seychelles. These boats we see plying between Eden IsLand- La Digue- Praslin with a little BBQ on the back, ice machine on board, are owned by individual investors who agree for a set monthly base payment paid over seas, free of Seychelles tax, to place their yacht in Seychelles. Money paid by the guest is paid to a reservations - booking company overseas. These funds are transferred prorata to the owner, then a small portion into Seychelles accounts.
Very little of the actual booking revenue reaches Seychelles, perhaps as much as only 15%.
In turn, the government sees this as the main revenue from the yachts anchored in Seychelles, on our corals. We collect the trash thrown over board by the Sunday Captains, we deal with crushed corals, and they throw the BBQ coals unused into the sea, and BBQ fish heads. Then we have to deal with sharks and we blame the Arabs for it. While the shark incident with the Arab was a one off, the shark issue with bare oats is a constant issue at Prominent beaches.
No Way To Control Them
The government of Seychelles has issued 1200 licenses. A few hundred charter boats are already in Seychelles. The French - Informant advises me there is no way government can control this issue, if it does not put money and resources on it.
I told him, government can change its approach. Instead of licensing the business, it can license each yacht. Then, knowing it will be tricked by these economic pirates each year, it can simply fix a high license fee valid for 12 months. Example-SCR. 200,000.00 per yacht. If the yacht owner does not pay each January of the new year, a letter must be sent to remove the yacht from the fleet, then it cannot take any more bookings. It loses its HC license, the abuse ends. Compliance will increase. Is SCR. 200,000.00 reasonable? Of course it is. It works out to only € 12,000.00 per yacht, per annum, for these floating BBQ grill.
What About Larger Yachts?
The French - Informant advises me we must be smart. Larger yachts contribute big money into the economy. For these, we benefit directly from them, they are also private in nature. These types of yachts, rent apartments, do dry docks, spend money in restaurants, hotels, and generally do not light up the BBQ grill unless 50 miles off shore. We should be more lenient with them, because they do not come here to suck us dry, and call us stupid!
I have more to write on this. However, the French- Informant advise me to keep it short, not everyone reads English well and Google translation from English to French does not always work well.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!
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Same could be said about ALL five star hotels. They are collecting for packages (accommodation, half board, full board) overseas and only the extras are paid here.
firstly .i totoally support Gill ACTION PLAN AGIANST PL AND FOREIGN ILKS ROBBING US.sECONDLY .WHILE LARGER CHARTERBOATS MIGHT BRING MONEY TO SEYCHELLES THEY ARE STILL TOO BIG FOR THEY DESTROYED SEYCHELLOIS BOATCHARTERS WHO ARE LICENSED TOO..
12000 LICENSE GIFTED TO FOREIGNERS ARE SIMPLY TOO MANY ,AND SHOULD SIMPLY BE CANCELLED ,,,,NOTING THAT LICENSE ARE GIVEN BY SEYCHELLES GOVERNEMNT WITHOUT ANYONE HOLDING A GUN AT THERI HEAD....AND AS SOVEIREGN NATION WE CAN STOP THEM BY REVOKING THE LICENSE......
wE KNEW PL CREATED FINAncial leakage ,,with thier foreign boats ,five star hotels, EXPATS recruiters also sposnor and owe by Pl hidden thugs etc..etc..etcc,and other things........these must stop and no one must tell me it is not possible as if foreigners control us and they decide or give out licesnes...
Many of these foreign charterboats licesned must be revoked ....and there need to be a radical reduction if not totla ban of yachts ankering at Nase Lazio which is poluating the place .
I guess there are some so called corruption body pl creatred and i heard Anasthasia blah baslhing asbpout it today while failinbg to accoplish naythingh......
it is high time we investigate these pl thugs and screw them hard.......
On the five stars, I have the secret weapon to deal with them.
But I am not about to reveal it as Le Pep is abusing on Seychellois business and permitting monopolies in tourism to make all suffer.
When they announce they will deal with this issue, I will reveal the secret weapon to clamp down, once and for all easily, with 5 star non compliance.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
CGill
Gill has been ringing the alarm bell for yeears now......But of course pl thugs played death ears for they are the conspirators and thugs behind those illegally and in fact,,unpatritoic criminal activities....
Ban all license of these samll charterboats ..and give it to seychellois ........there are too many of them ........
If any can operate ,,they should fill up a daily record of amount of passagers they cater and transported(which can be scrutinized by public agents) and all revenues must be banked locally they need to pay their fair due every year.
we decide in seychelles not foreigners ,,those who donot accept the rules ,need to pact up and leaVE ..WE CANNOT ALLOW FOREIGN THUGS TO ABUSE, USE AND ROB US AND DEPRIVE SEYCHELLOIS FROM THEIR OWN ECONOMY....
cOMPÜLETE BANNED TO ANKER AT aNSE LAZIO....I MEAN WITHOUT EXCEPTION......IMMEDIATELY ......
fOREIGN CHARTERBOATS MUST BE FORCED TO BNAKED MONEY LOCALLY ..FIALING TO DO ,,,LICESNE MUST BE CANCELLED FOREVER.
aNY FOREIGN INVESTORS SHOULD BE IN JOIN VENTURE IWTH A CLOAL COMPAny ,,or no licesne possible.
ALl charterboats must be forced to provide a dialy record on amount of paSSENGERS THEY CARRY ,,,THUS POSSIBLE TO CHECK OR ESTIMATE MONEY COOLECTED BOTH ABORAD OR LOCALLY ..BECUASE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO COUNT HOW MANY PERSONS THZEY TRANSPORT ON A DAILY BAISIS FOR EXCURSION......THAT WETHER YOU APY ABRAOD OR NOT ,,THE AMOUNT OF PASSENGER WILLL TELL US MORE OR LESS HOW MUCH THEY POCKET..REGARDLESS IF THEY BANK THEIR REVENUES ABRAOD........YOUZ WILL HAVE TO PAY ACCORDING TO AMOUNT OF PASSENGERES CARRIED LOCALLY ....
large baot bring money to state ,,,wewould like them to allow seychellois boat owners to eat rather than bring money directly to state coffer ,,the later does not provide benefits to local boat charter ..so too large baot must be banned tooo......so to allow seychellopis first to eat than pl or foreigners.....
the point here is not if large foreign yacths bring money to pl but if seychellopis charter boats vcan eat ..if the alter can eat then the different the large bvoats are now genrating for pl ,,ther locals would do it via taxes....
Five star hotels with over number of rooms (consciuosly built to then tell us "our rooms were not completely fulkl ,so less taxes for us"msut be asked to reduced the seize of their hotels ..like at pORT LAUNAY .AND USE THE SPACE TO BUILT SMALLER HOTELS ,,,DITO TO lUMERIA ,ASND OTHERS ,,,,,,,,THEY BUILT ALL ALONG THE BEACHES TO BLOCK THE BEACHES AND BUILT MAssive hotels they dcannot fill up to suck us whiel all profit are banked aborad andf not to say ,the thousands of cheap slaved expats they brought to destzroy us totlally ....BIG OVERSIEZE HOTELS mustz be forced to make their hotels smaller and make space for sdmaller hotels thus give seychellis theyir economy back .
Bare boat charters-
Annual license fee per yacht from 4-8 berths 200,000.00- 400,000.00 per annum.
Annual fishing trolling fee per yacht - 50,000.00
Annual BBQ fee - 25,000.00
All boats must have Seychellois crew and skipper.
No boats are allowed to wade about with Sunday skippers. They drink, get drunk and act like ass holes on the ocean.
Annual mooring fee off la Digue, Praslin not Anse Lazio - 50,000.00.
If they don't like it, tell them to BBQ chicken at Eden Island or Dream yacht base.
Le Pep, wake up man, get off your ass. You are losing money every year, then you look to Seychellois business to cover your ass.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
C Gill
Le Pep needs to get serious about this and stop screwing around with it.
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I fully understand what you mean,however PL thugs always have an offense and defense team ready to try to interpret the word "IS" is.
If you notice during DF speech,the PAS-BATON ceremony,he tried his best mentioning,he will clean the SWAMP under his administration,but NO one noticed that he is now adding ALLIGATORS in the swamp!
We must not take Danny Faure words seriously.
Take his actions seriously.
Communist use words as a lighter version of the opiate of the masses to placate them.
Action is where we balance the scales.
We must demand action. It is our right as Seychellois!
If he cannot deliver action, he will face a tsunami of opposition he has never seen or dreamed of.
Sesel Pou SESELWA
CGill
Danny ,Meriton were not picked up by rene to change the status quo but to protect it and keep it alive.....they trying hard to act like docile sheeps hoping it would make them look different from Rene and Michel but they want be able to fake their real crooked personalities.......Now ,,,the question that we must also ask is, what is Michel doing in this expensive block with all the state house ex- employees he brought with him.....Are they paid by state or Michel .If it is by Michel were does Michel generate the money to pay each of these individual a fat cat salary?Is Michel licensed to operate a business ?if yes ,what business?Maybe to continue managing these illegal businesses he created .:Soleil off .charter yachts etc......
LDS must not waste time with Le Pep.
It must initiate a full legislative investigation into L' ESPACE construction, financing, JJ Spirit Foundation, financing and disbursements, SEPEC - disbursements for CSR, SACOS disbursements of CSR, Pension Fund construction, disbursements of funds.
Inventory of coco de mere which runs in millions of theft.
In the interim I agree with above Faure talks a nice story but his actions is what we are waiting for step by step.
Le Pep is so stupid I cannot believe it. They say they want to tax foreign property. Great. We have ask for this for 15 years.
They say the tax will be based on per square meters. Here is the stupid.
Property tax must be based on the Appraised Value of the land and house, not on the area.
You need to establish an industry of property appraisers Le Pep
It's like I have to baby walk you thru this?
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
CGill
Agree .LDS must not waste time with Le PEP...in fact ,LDS must speed up.Seychelles are loosing multi millions of dolars with those massive illegal enterprises while the same crooks were the initiators of Seychelles Pharaoic foreign debt that continues to increase,bankrupcy .....which Seychellois people must pay back.
As to Dr Larose decision to calculate Property Tax base on square meter ,,it is another way to make foreigners pay the minimum or less than they should ..for If base of Appraised Value ,which should be the normal practice they would have to pay much more.
On the 13th Month salary...
I am afraid to say that Seselwa have been conditioned to get everything for free. Seselwa should not just expect. Private companies should be encouraged to set up a bonus system that will pay a minimum equivalent to a 13th month salary. This bonus system should be one that is measurable to bring in efficiencies to these private business. This is the only way that a 13th month salary can be sustainable. It should take into consideration, absenteeism, lateness, productivity. If every private business had such bonus systems in place, I am sure the workers would be more focus to deliver an efficient service, which in return will cut the staffing costs. All these savings will be available to distribute out as bonus which should be equivalent to the 13th month salary or even more.
Surely, it cannot be fair to dish out a 13th month salary to a member of staff with poor attendance records. It cannot be right to pay a 13th month salary to a driver that has an own fault accident causing thousand of rupees worth of damage, because he was driving whilst under the influence of alcohol. Paying 13th month salary to such irresponsible individual is like rewarding failures. Such practice of rewarding failures will be the final nail for the private sector !
Bonus system literally all companies practice it......the different between a bonus and a 13th salary is that the former is vonluntary and the latter an obligation......which means even when your company is having fiancial difficulty you msut pay employees 13th salary ,vice versa in the case of bonus......
Morevoer ,non one would accept to pay a 13th monthly salary with all the new taxes coming .it would make it harder for nay business owner to accept it ......Maybe if pl would have for instance ,,,,cancel some existing taxes ,,like the CSR which initially should be a vonluntary act.......but even that would not be enough ..Hence ....leave the bonus system in place......
Setting up an equivalent of 13th monthly salary cannot be accepted ,,,there is no different in amount ..but solely in names ........
I my opinion ,the governemnt should it wants businesses to pay a 13th monthly salary ,should simply remove certain taxes on businesses ,as said above ,CSR etc .....so that the amount of CSR being paid now to Governemnt would rather be paid to employees by employers annually ....
I personally does see how the government get the support of private businesses without offering something ..some reduce ,cancelation of certain taxes they now paying ,,, in fact ,it seems there are more taxes coming .....
13 th Month Salary is stealing as Gill said.
He is 100% correct. It is theiving. Government is stealing company money and giving it to workers some not deserving.
It is a fundamental alteration of the employer and employee relationship and societal norms.
Le face is doing this to stay in power. Little do they know private sector workers applied for jobs in government and we not accepted for security clearance. Le Face will see their support when Danny Faire can put Simon Gill on the Moon.
Thank you all for your comments.
The square meter calculation obstructs the exercise of taxing foreigners property because on Eden island, there are high value houses and apartments on small land area.
We have always pressed Le Pep for tax based on valuations.
Taxing based on square meters has its own issues. Example, you will encourage development of all land owned by foreigners to the boundary, since you tax it to the boundary. The better approach in western jurisdictions as opposed to the eastern block is to tax based on value.
Therefore, MOF must establish value. This means appraisals are needed, secondly once appraisals are accepted, you need to issue the assessment. Once assessment is issued, you must add an interest rate surcharge for non payment. If it drags out, over a period of years, judicial seizure, then execution. This should follow publication, finally auction to Seychellois.
The message will be clear, foriegners will pay their fair share. Those that do are welcome, provided they respect our people and our laws, even if they are bad laws. That issue, is a issue for Seychellois to resolve internally amongst ourselves
Those that want a free ride off Seychellois, are not welcome. Simple.
Dr. La Rose we all see as a technical professional. We do not come consider him to be in Le Pep inner circle as for example Lousteau Llallane or Jean Paul Adam. We understand Dr. La Rose is working under severe pressures with a weak Principal secretary. Be that as it may, he needs to get this right.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
CGill
Agree with you,your key word,"working with weak PL Principle Secretary"
Does that reminds us of Chang Leng and Laporte?
Hope he stick to the gun.
I pray HE will be the first one not to get polluted by PL!
Dr Larose must tell his secretary he is the minister not vice versa.......
Dr larose must not let someone under him,incompetent tell him what to do,,,,,,Pl has fialed the country ,its now time they let professional fix their mess ..and learn from proffesionals if they have the intellectual ability to do.
La rose can be minister of finance under Le Pep and LDS.
So he has to play his card smart.
The dog is not wagged by the tail.
Dog wags the tail.
Faure is becoming the grand master of condolence......condolence here and there .Soon he would send a condolence to a sacred cow death in India..Does this guy has anything more important to do?
A BRAVO;Hurray to MR St Ange and team ......the only performing minster so far....another recording breaking arrival....and with the Arrival of Austria Air soon ,this years figure would be broken .
St. Ange For President!
Sure he is doing a suntastic job regarding promoting the Seychelles Tourism.
Numbers are high,really high.But does all the profit stays in Seychelles?
He is the same man also trying to put a Quota on the arrivalals!
How can you have it both ways?
Errrrr....this is my opinion...I know someone will tear me apart just to make St Ange happy.Schooling and lecturing is on the way! Watch out! SEE I TOLD U SO!
St. Ange has done a good job on the numbers.
His problem is he brings in cheapos. He must resolve this.
The yield I suspect will be down again this year.
His other problem has been his systemic failure to deal internal issues like Vertical monopolies In tourism.
He must focus on this, or his legacy will erode faster then the great land slide.
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
CGill
Le Pep seems to have walked over LDS today.
La Rose attacked Ahmed Afif personally, Speaker Pillay let it ride.
The LDS bench was asleep, exception JF Ferrari and Flory Larue, Cliff Andre. Everyone else was on half throttle.
Le pep cunningly out smarted them.
Here are some key points-
SBC Budget, Independence of SBC 9 million collected outside consolidated fund. Le Pep said they are independent. But in reality, the Board is not independent. LDS out smarted, they did not raise the issue.
Chinese finance the Dream SBC building 100%. But 6.8 million to fund is in the budget. LDS passed the subtitle. Unbelievable. Denis Rose was a master. He could be appointed Ministrr of foreign Affairs, as he justified every substitute expenditure, even for Nation, without a call and insistence for reforms from LDS. Just a little groaning here and there. In the final say, Abstain.
Weak, weak weak.
i wonder what happened to Mitsie Larue regarding the drug issue???anybody has any update..im far away but would like to know if there is any truth in it
It seems to me only afif was prepared for the dedate.......others were onlookers....It was a disgrace .
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donot even ask the question,,,Pl has no solution to the drug problem ,,,,,in fact pl cannot shut up this lucrative business operated by its members.On the other hands ,I would like to hear what LDS proposes.......LDS though in the Opposition should come up with proposals on various issues too....
Her son rents a house in area. The drugs were found in that specific house.
This is the confusion, this is the shame.
dURG FOUND AGAIN ON hOME AFFAIRE PROPERTY .......AND ndea TOLD US ,,,,NO INVOVLEMNT OF THE MINSITER ...WE KNOW aNDY lABLACHE A FAMILY MEMBER OF THE MINSITER WAS JAILED AND RELEASED RECENTLY BY fAURE -----DITO WE KNOW FOR A LONG TIME DURG DEALERS ,IMPORTERS ARE MEMBER OF pL TUHGGIST PARTY...
hOW CAN THE HOME AFFAIRE MINSITER FIGHT DURG WHEN ..HER INVOVLEMNT IS CLEAR AND MEMBER OF HER FAMILY WAS JAILED AND ARRESTED MANY TIMES ......WE ASK WERE THE MONEY CAME FOR THESE BIG EXPENSIVE CARS ........NDEA HAS SHOWN US ONCE AGAIN......
HOME AFFAIRE MINSITER SHOULD RESIGN AND INVESTIGATED
Just a reflection
shortly the fisherman caught the biggest snaper ever caught worldwide.......would it wiser if we would have kept it ,conserve it and display it in a Museum thus attract visitors and generate long term revenues.Why is there so many greedy donkeys in this country and brainless.
PL makrs TENNO of Japan Birthday ....absurd sinot it .:What does Seychellois ahve in common ,historically ,trandtionally ,culturally with the Meperor of Japan PL?Next or is it a step ,a preapration for Pl to then ask us to Clelebrate KHALFIASbirthday ,or even make it a Seychelles National Even ?''Stop your shit pl.......with have historiacyl connection with UK ..queen victoria ,,never heard with the Emperor of Japan
I saw the bishop handing over a car to the orphan ,as if these would heal them from the missing ,love,affection they lost from their biological parents .the latter are roaming around towns living a happy life while their kids are being psychological,morally,facing disturbance and absent of their parents.....
Should not government put in place a strict system in palce to 1)identify biological parents (keeping DNA ssample at birth in hospital in case parents abandone child thus can be trace back).....make them take the parental ,moral,resposnibility............if they done accept kids when identifiy they would have to financially contribute to orphan homes for their kids well being ..
2)if biological parents after being identify refuse kids ...hence family members of parents might be interesting to take Kid,keep contact with him or her........etc--
TI,e to take actions from immoral.unethic behaviour of these parents who abandone their kids ..
there are abortion option ...they should use when they know theynot going to keep the kid not give birth then burden society ..and fail to take their parental responsibility .....thus the slow moral.psychological,lost of affection etc ...that a kid would suffer all his or her lives ..
Time to be firmed with the actual laissez faire ammoral behaviour...
Noting often family members .friends, neighbours of pregnant mother as well as father are known in the community they live or else ...
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