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Article: Income Tax Headaches Pain Cuba's Self-Employed Workers
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 13, 1996
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For the first time in a generation, many Cuban workers will
soon face the same difficulties and fears that chill Americans at
this time of year -- figuring how much income tax they owe and what
they can legally claim as deductions.
Cuba's Marxist government imposed a progressive personal
income tax on the nation's growing ranks of self-employed workers on
April 1, with the first quarterly payment due in three months. The
move complemented the levying of a host of other taxes and reforms
in a nation where taxes disappeared shortly after the triumph of
President Fidel Castro's socialist revolution in 1959.
Senior government officials and economists say the taxes,
ranging from 5 ...