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Report price gouging to the CAC

IN KEEPING WITH the mandate of the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) to provide useful information to assist and protect consumers in the market place, and in response to numerous complaints reaching the offices of the Commission, regarding various market anomalies such as price gouging and some instances of the wrongful application of GCT to tax except products, the Commission has decided to remind consumers of items that DO NOT ATTRACT GCT.

NON-TAXED GROCERY AND AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

As per information received from the Tax Administration Services Department & Taxpayers Audit and Assessment Department

RAW FOODSTUFF AS FOLLOWS:

Fresh fruits

Vegetables

Ground provisions

Legumes

Onions and garlic

Meat

Poultry

Fish, shrimps, lobsters etc.

Whether frozen, chilled, salted, packaged, ground, diced, chopped or dried

CANNED, PICKLED OR DRIED MEATS

Sardines

Mackerel

Corned beef

Herring

Fish

Shad

CARBOHYDRATES, MILK AND FATS

Cornmeal

Cereal Flour (counter flour)

Cereal containing thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, iron but no other additives

Corn

Soyameal

Wheat

Rice

Sugar

Rolled Oats

Packaged Baking Flour (not less than 45.3kg)

Cooking Oil

Fish, Cock and Chicken noodle soups in aluminum sachets

Bread, buns, bullas, crackers and biscuit

Infant Formulae

The CAC urges all consumers who may have experienced any such breach to contact the offices of the Commission, furnished with a good receipt, where the appropriate sanctions will be levied.

Remember to ask for, obtain and retain your receipt for all purchases!!

Contact Numbers:

Head Office: 926-1650-2

Montego Bay: 940-6154