Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Finance issued a release on the scope of basic food items that will be made VAT-free (zero-rated) with effect from 1 November 2021 as part of the 2022 Budget.
In the 2022 Budget Statement, presented on Monday October 4th 2021, several items were identified by the Minister of Finance, by way of example, which would now be free of VAT (as of November 1st 2021), including biscuits, cooking oil, canned vegetables, cornflakes, canned fish, canned meat, curry, juice, sausages, ham, ketchup, bottled water and pigtail.
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