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Advance Child Tax Credit
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The local tax filing season for 2022 will begin tomorrow, Monday, Jan. 24, which is when the American Samoa Tax Office (ASTO) will begin accepting and processing 2021 tax returns, according to ASG Treasurer, Malemo Tausaga in a statement yesterday morning.
“The necessary...
Around 7:30a.m yesterday a long line had already formed at the Utulei Branch of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa with people waiting to cash their Advance Child Tax Credit (ACTC) checks, or withdraw through their direct-deposit. Around 11a.m., Samoa News observed people still standing in line...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a statement yesterday, ASG Deputy Treasury, Levi Reese, confirmed the release date this month of the first payment for the Advance Child Tax Credit or the Advance CTC, funded through the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
According to the statement, more than $...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale has signed into law the government’s more than $500 million budget for fiscal year 2022, while the Fono has given the final endorsement to an Administration bill adopting into local statute the federal Advance Child Tax Credit — which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono joint conference committee last Friday agreed to the government’s budget of more than $500 million for fiscal year 2022 — which begins Oct. 1, 2021 — as submitted by the Lemanu Administration without making any changes to the original language of the proposed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If the Administration’s bill that was sent to the Fono last week allowing Treasury to distribute the Advance Child Tax Credit using funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is approved by the Fono and signed by the Governor, tax payers with children will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local Tax Office Manager Vaaimamao E. Poufa told the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee yesterday that ASG has already received over $33 million from the US Treasury for local payments to those who qualify under the federal Advance Child Tax Credit through the...