Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo words of vision Peter Nygard sees uncertainty on horizon in fashion world 27 focus knife in the heart Canadas War stance undermines the United nations sports Riley goes out in style bombers departing Mentor named cols coach of the year Clear 9 Clear free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Winnipeg division trustees warn of hefty school tax Rise second cuss Mai registration number 0286 weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 957o550 classified 9562330 january by Maureen Houston Winnipeg school division will be forced to raise taxes More than six per cent this year unless another can be pared from a budget already featuring million in cuts to programs and building there Are no doubt some inefficiencies in our system but the kind of Cut were expected to make now without a great property tax in crease is simply not trustee Irene Haigh said at last nights finance committee instead of an anticipated three percent increase in provincial fund a for million staff lacking to recover Cash by Donald Campbell Winnipeg free 1991 the province is struggling to recover As much As million in retail sales tax paid by Consumers to companies that have not turned the Money Over to a tax department source although the government has the authority to go after the the department is too understaffed to effectively recover the source they Only have three Guys trying to Chase this Money the source but there just playing a game of you can see it coming a Guy who folded one business and took the sales tax with it pops up a few months later with a new you just know youll be chasing him again in six months to a the source explained that one Winnipeg business had sales tax arrears of More than from Selling food and drink at a restau he said the operation went out of but the owner now runs an office building he constructed and the province cant touch they the tax department will Chase a Little old lady who runs a Corner store and owes but they seem to be willing to sweep under the carpet larger Bills the source in another the source the department has been unwilling to take action against a prominent Manitoba auctioneer who has been caught withholding As much As in retail sales Guys in the department Tele phone him up occasionally and ask him How things Are the source and he says business is Lousy and they leave it at Treyve been chasing and begging him to pay the Money for a while see manness Page 16 province drops embarrassing sales tax Case by Donald Campbell Winnipeg free 1991 the province caught a hard Ware store improperly charging and pocketing retail sales tax from its customers for More than a but dropped the Case because it was powerless to re cover the provincial finance depart ment documents show the prov Ince planned to order the Rural Manitoba business to turn Over to the province last the amount was an estimate of the Money that had been improperly collected from Consumers under the Guise of provincial sales tax for the installation of an audit of the stores books Early last year revealed the com Pany was charging customers seven per cent on the retail Price and labor costs for the installation of fixed household goods such As but the firm was Only paying the govern ment tax on the lesser whole Sale Cost of the product in Stan assistant Deputy minister of officially closed the Case on the store in an 31 the departments file Issue could result in significant embarrassment to the government should the Case go to he the Case was contained in documents leaked to the free press in violation of secrecy proviso Sions in the retail sales tax one source said the Case shows How senior finance department officials have been soft on Busin esses that have violated Provin Cial sales tax we see people collecting tax and putting it in their pocket All the time and the Branch does see province Page 16 Ann 30 28 30 crossword 30 39 31 30 Jumble 51 32 people 28 sports 43 sports record 46 stocks 22 Tempo 27 to listings 28 Ward 3 lotto waning num tora winning a wow trustees Learned tuesday the division would get no additional government the funding freeze Means More drastic budget measures Are required than current recommendations to Cut almost 200 postpone million in work to facilities and eliminate some band and summer Board chairman de Kowalchuk said it appears the division will be unable to achieve it goal of holding this years property tax increase for education at six per Kowlachuk also suggested scrap Ping the divisions Nursery school program and eliminating a physio therapy program and educational consultants to Force the province to meet the needs through health and social services included in the current proposal is elimination of 50 teachers aide a Prospect their association called i really feel sick Winnipeg association of nonteaching employees president Ruth Moskal adding the Cut would mean a 10per cent reduction in aide right now the staff morale is Zero everyone afraid for their see freeze Page 4 a photo skirmish yields six says from Preu Tersip armoured cavalry skirmishes with iraqis in the first ground clash along the Northern Border of saudi where vast fleets of tanks manoeuvred and dug in yesterday for a coming land War in the Des the americans captured six iraqis and suffered two slight Ca the command it denied a Baghdad claim that the iraqis also seized for a second night Iraq fired off a double barrelled Volley of scud missiles at saudi Arabia and no casualties were reported one scud descended on Northern Israel about 10 and was intercepted by Patriot de sense the israeli military at the same five scuds apparently were intercepted by patriots Over the saudi cities of and hair Al saudi sources and witnesses report if it would be the first time the hair Al Batin area had been the Northern desert City is where Arab members of the anti see Bush Page 4 widow weeps yesterday at funeral of Man who died of heart attack during scud maps Home at stake in failure Bank starts proceedings to liquidate Bobbie business by Bruce Owen Winnipeg South tory my Dorothy Dobbie could lose her North Kildonan Home because of financial prob lems facing the publishing com Pany she and her husband i have to wait and see what the Bank a dejected Dobbie said when i set the business up i gave my personal guarantee and what physical assets i i knew what the risks in a statement Dobbie said association publications Al had ceased operations and proceedings had commenced by the Bank to liquidate the Dobbie said Al had been plagued by numerous management problems during the last year and ran into difficulty after she resigned As presi Dent to concentrate her efforts As a member of a Small business cannot operate without direct management by its she unfortunately the duties of Public office make this i just be there to make sure this didst Dobbie said in an interview she did not think there were enough physical assets or accounts receivable to have Al placed into see business Page 4 or Gulf pulls Iraq nuclear Teeth Chretien caught in Gulf War Sand trap Israel decides against for evidence emerges of terrorist network Dobbie knew risks Ruble Reform stuns soviets by Michael Dobbs the Washington Post a 78yearold spent tuesday night crying her eyes out most of her lifetime savings had effectively been confiscated by the soviet across Erb rat aliens satisfaction at getting a Good Price for his car turned to despair when lie realized that the thick wad of 100ruble notes in his pocket had suddenly become yesterday he took equivalent of four years earnings for the average soviet a Moscow Bank in the Hope of getting at least something in they told me i could use the Money in the said an azerbaijani collective farm i now cant even buy an air ticket to go police were summoned to keep order at Banks and savings institutions across the soviet Union yesterday morning following president Mikhail Gorbachev announcement of a draconian monetary a 50and 100ruble banknotes ceased to be Legal tender after a presidential decree restricted the right of Exchange in most cases to one months in a television interview tuesday prime minister Valentin Pavlov insisted that the monetary Reform was aimed at Black marketeers see big denomination Page 5 ;