Montserrat officers visit Bermuda
Updated: Oct 18, 2018 08:03 AM
Fact finding: Montserratian customs and tax officials have been in Bermuda to learn how the Government collects revenue and monitors land transfers. From left are Damien Baxter, valuation survey technician, Bermuda Land Valuation Department, Violette Silcott, comptroller of Inland Revenue, Montserrat, Charlesworth Phillip, estate management consultant, Montserrat, Diane Elliott, director of Land Valuation, Bermuda, Sheldon Carty, valuation officer, Montserrat Inland Revenue and Jennifer Beane, valuation survey technician, Land Valuation, Bermuda (Photograph supplied)
Customs officers from a Caribbean island are in Bermuda to research the land valuation process.
The Montserrat Customs and Revenue Service arranged the visit after the Land Valuation Department made a presentation at the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre Property Taxation Conference in 2016.
MCRS members have been in Bermuda since October 8 to research:
• Bermuda’s property valuation system and operations for land taxation purposes.
• Billing and collection of land tax.
• The Land Valuation Department’s IT databases.
The visit has included two days of on-site property inspections with the department’s valuation survey technicians.
