THE Private Sector Commission (PSC) has said it welcomes the clarity provided by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Chairman Rawle Lucas, pertaining to the agency’s visit to Commissioner-General Kurshid Sattaur’s home.

Lucas had noted that no raid was carried out on the home of Sattaur, nor was he disrespected. Sattaur is currently on leave.

The GRA Chairman also noted that the revenue body’s only intent, on visiting Sattaur’s home, was to retrieve and protect taxpayers’ data.

“I want you to understand [that] the only thing that we were interested in is receiving from the Commissioner-General was whatever data or information he had that pertained to the work of GRA,” Lucas explained.

He adumbrated that the removal of GRA property from Sattaur’s home was not done unbeknown to Sattaur, as it was the Commissioner General who had personally provided the date and time officers should visit his home to retrieve the property.

“We are happy over the clarity which he has brought to this matter.  We are pleased to hear that the rights of the Commissioner General were not breached in this matter.  In addition, Mr Lucas claimed that the visit to his home, which was most unusual in the circumstances, were allegedly consensual. We were, however, disappointed that in their release he sought to target only PSC and did not respond to our concerns, and also debunk the misleading news article which led to this matter being brought to the fore,” the PSC said.

It added: “The PSC would like to advise that we did speak with Mr Kurshid Sattaur, Commissioner-General, on this matter and we will continue to raise our voices whenever we see unfair or partial treatment being meted out to our fellow Guyanese.”