The following is a news release from the office of Tina Muna Barnes, vice speaker of the Guam Legislature. We note this effort, if implemented by the administration, can help…

It has been seven years since senators passed a law to help stop the leakage of the taxes smokers already pay, but never makes it to fund the Guam Memorial…

Guam senators are considering a 40 percent tax on vape products while ignoring millions in uncollected taxes on cigarettes. Bill No. 263, introduced by Sen. Amanda Shelton on behalf of…

There is no documented movement by the Leon Guerrero administration to implement two laws designed to ensure Guam’s big tobacco companies are paying their fair share of taxes. In 2017,…

The Guam Legislature has thus far refused to lower the price of gas by eliminating the liquid fuel tax that accounts for roughly 28 cents per gallon of cost. The…

At least one of Guam’s 15 senators is questioning why the government is dragging its feet to collect all the cigarette taxes smokers already pay at the register, and are…

(Editor’s note: This is one of a two-part series on the collection of sin taxes on Guam. This first part is about the tobacco tax. The second part deals with…

Four years since a law passed to make it harder for multi-million dollar cigarette distributor companies to evade taxes, and two governors later, nothing has been done to get those…