How much rum tax is returned to the Virgin Islands is essential to the over 8,700 retirees receiving checks from the Government Employees’ Retirement System. However, Angel Dawson, the GERS administrator, told the board of trustees that it amounts to little more than a “statistical rounding error” to the U.S. Congress, and he noted that Congress is presently having trouble passing any tax legislation.
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