NewsWhore
10-23-2008, 05:10 PM
The new members of the Chamber of Accounts (CC), the government accounting office, have published the amounts of their salaries. In a certified letter sent to El Caribe, CC financial director Ana Maria Rivas Duran points out that because of the austerity directives issued by the President, members' salaries will be RD$281,973.60 per month. To this sum is added a RD$20,000 expense account and RD$28,125 for gasoline. Fees and taxes will take RD$57,595.27 in income tax, RD$16,948.42 in retirement payments and RD$25.00 for the National Housing Institute (INAVI). After these deductions, the magistrates will receive a check for RD$255,529.91 each month. The current CC's predecessors increased their salaries from RD$261,000 to RD$449,000 in January 2007, a move that scandalized the entire country. Public pressure led to the former CC judges, who had been on the job for less than six months, being forced to revoke the salary increases and eventually led to their dismissal.
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