Public Notice 3-23 Saba re Animal Registration Fee 2023 (Saba)
The Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba has published Public Notice no. 3-23 dated 13 January 2023 regarding the Animal Registration Fee 2023. Click here for a link to the relevant post on the facebookpage of the Public Entity Saba. In this Public Notice no. 3-23 dated 13 January 2022, the Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba informs the public of the following: “Animal Registration Fee 2023 The ...
Public Notice 1-23 Saba re Road Tax 2023 (Saba)
The Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba has published on its facebookpage the Public Notice no. 1-23 dated 4 January 2023 regarding the Road Tax 2023. Click here for a link to the relevant post on said facebookpage. In this Public Notice no. 1-23 dated 4 January 2023, the Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba informs the public of the following: “Road Tax 2023 All motor vehicles must ...
Deadline for the Saba Road Tax 2022 is approaching (Saba)
The Public Entity Saba has published a reminder on its facebook page about the fact that the deadline for the 2022 road tax is approaching: all motor vehicles must carry the yellow and blue stickers by July 1st, 2022. It is noted in the post that failure to pay road tax can result in fines. In connection with the above reminder, Public Notice no. 1-22 dated 3 January 2022 regarding ...
Public Notice 3-22 Saba re Animal Registration Fee 2022 (Saba)
The Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba has published on its facebookpage the Public Notice no. 3-22 dated 11 January 2022 regarding the Animal Registration Fee 2022. Click here for a link to the relevant post on said facebookpage. In this Public Notice no. 3-22 dated 11 January 2022, the Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba informs the public of the following: “Animal Registration Fee 2022 Based on ...
Public Notice 1-22 Saba re Road Tax 2022 (Saba)
The Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba has published on its facebookpage the Public Notice no. 1-22 dated 3 January 2022 regarding the Road Tax 2022. Click here for a link to the relevant post on said facebookpage. In this Public Notice no. 1-22 dated 3 January 2022, the Executive Council of the Public Entity Saba informs the public of the following: “Road Tax 2022 All motor vehicles must ...
Draft Multi-Annual Budget 2022-2025 Saba: local levies figures, policies on increasing and introducing new levies, on collection and remission of local levies and lobby for excise taxes on unhealthy products (Saba)
On October 26th, 2021, the draft Multi-Annual Budget 2022-2025 of the public entity Saba (Meerjarenbegroting 2022-2025 van het openbaar lichaam Saba) has been published on the website of the Public Entity Saba. The draft will be available for public viewing at the Security Desk in the Government Administration Building of Saba as well. The publication of the multi-year budget 2022-2025 was announced in a Public Notice nr. 54-21 by the ...
Road tax, License Plates & Registration Update 2021: by July 1st, all motor vehicles must carry a gray sticker (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
The Executive Council of the public entity Saba has published Public Notice no. 35-21 regarding the Road tax, License Plates & Registration Update 2021 on its facebook page (see the picture below). Click here for a link to the relevant post on said facebook page. According to the Public Notice, by March 1st, all motor vehicles must carry a red sticker and by July 1st, all motor vehicles must carry ...
Lucht voor toerisme en horeca op Saba: vrijstelling van overheidsvergoedingen aangekondigd (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
Bedrijven op Saba in de horeca- en toeristische sector krijgen voor april tot en met december 2020 extra vrijstelling van het Openbaar Lichaam Saba: de ondernemers hoeven niet de verschillende vergoedingen te betalen die ze normaal aan de overheid betalen. Het bestuurscollege heeft hiertoe onlangs besloten. Dit is bekendgemaakt met een post op de facebookpagina van het openbaar lichaam. Het betreft extra hulpmaatregelen voor bedrijven die financieel zijn getroffen door ...
Road tax & license plates 2021 Saba (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
The road tax and license plates 2021 have been announced in Public Notice no. 1-21 of the Executive Council of the public entity Saba. The public notice (see below) has been published on the facebookpage of the public entity. Click here for a link to the relevant post. All motor vehicles must carry the red sticker by March 1st, 2021 and must carry the gray sticker by July 1st, 2021 ...
Kamerbrief staatssecretaris BZK inzake zorgen eilandsraad Saba over budget openbaar lichaam (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
De staatssecretaris van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (BZK) heeft bij brief van 27 november 2020 gereageerd op het verzoek van de vaste commissie voor Koninkrijksrelaties van 2 september 2020 om een reactie te geven op een brief van het Openbaar Lichaam Saba (OLS) waarin de eilandsraad zijn zorgen over de ontoereikendheid van het structureel beschikbare budget van het openbaar lichaam met de Tweede Kamer heeft gedeeld. De staatssecretaris geeft, kort ...
Additional USD 1.5 million financial support for Saba, inter alia to compensate Saba’s largely diminished tax revenues (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
Dutch State Secretary of Home Affairs and Kingdom Relations Raymond Knops visited Saba on Wednesday, November 4 and Thursday, November 5. He met with government officials, the Saba Business Association, went to the site of the new harbor project, and he pledged financial support to Saba for a total amount of US $1.5 million. While on the island, Knops signed two documents in which he committed to make additional financial ...
Saba implemented additional support measures (one-time relief package for apartment owners, taxi drivers, and other business owners): 35 persons qualified and received a one-time relief of $2,000 (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
In July 2020, the Public Entity Saba published the applications for a one-time relief package targeted towards apartment owners, taxi drivers, and other business owners that had not received any of the other packages provided by the Ministries of SZW and EZK up until then (see below). It concerns additional support measures in order to alleviate the burden of costs related to the Covid-19 crisis. In total, 52 people applied ...
Saba reports 2019 deficit “because of the lack of structural funding from the Netherlands”. It lacks the ability to generate more own income, increasing local levies and implementing local property taxes would have major consequences for an already fragile community and business sector, Saba Finance Commissioner says (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
The Public Entity Saba was again able to achieve an unqualified audit opinion of its 2019 year report, and while the financial statements once more meet the requirements stated in the law, the Saba Government was left no other choice than to present a document with a deficit of just over USD 621,000 because of the lack of structural funding from the Netherlands. This was announced in a press release ...
Saba establishes a one-time relief package for residents and waives business license fee (Caribisch Nederland – Saba)
The Public Entity Saba (het Openbaar Lichaam Saba) has established a one-time relief package for residents and waives business license fee. This relief package by the public entity is an additional measure to the earlier offered assistance by the Dutch Government through the economic relief package, which includes salary subsidy and a fixed cost allowance for self-employed persons who have entirely lost their income (being, respectively: the ‘Tijdelijke subsidieregeling loonkosten ...