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An appeal for help
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Posted on Jun 27 2008
To: U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Services
We are writing on behalf of the legal non-resident workers, who are taxpayers in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (Saipan, Tinian, Rota) to appeal to your office to investigate and take action on the disbursement of tax stimulus.
We have filed our federal income taxes for the fiscal year 2007 and we have reached the $3,000 minimum income requirement. However, until this time many of us have not received our stimulus check from the CNMI Treasury. The Federal Government has allotted $16.1 million for distribution of all taxpayers in the CNMI.
We request an investigation and explanation of the CNMI Department of Finance requiring non-resident workers to supply documents before they can receive their stimulus checks. We would like these waived so our checks can be distributed. Nonresident workers have been going back and forth to the CNMI office and are told that they are required to submit old passports from when they arrived here on this island, old entry permits, and other unnecessary documents that other taxpayers are not required to submit to receive their checks. We would like to know what the CNMI Department of Finance would do with the money they are withholding from the taxpaying nonresident workers?
We appeal to your office for investigate discriminatory procedures in the designated agency to expedite the release of all tax stimulus checks to qualified taxpayers. The nonresident workers are experiencing an economic crisis due to the inflated food prices, cost of electricity and gas, and other day-to-day living expenses combined with a minimum wage set far below the poverty level—$3.05 local and $4.05 federal minimum wage. We cannot even buy food and other basic necessities. Please help us avail of this aid from the Federal government as soon as possible.
[I][B]Human Dignity Movement[/B] Saipan, CNMI[/I]
