ALLIES TAXI SERVICE INC (ATS) 
PO Box 305724 
St. Thomas VI  
00803 
tyronetallboy@gmail.com  
 
To: Honorable Novelle E Francis.   
   Chairman,  Committee on Budget,  Appropriation and Finance 
Other members of the committee.  
 
From: Tyrone Paul , President, Allies Taxi Service Inc. 
 
Re: Support for Bill No.36-0045. 
       An Act appropriating the sum of $400,000 from the Tourism advertising 
revolving fund to the VI  Taxicab Commission for the implementation of 
technological upgrades including digitization of paper records and files.  
 
Good day Honorable Senators: 
 On behalf of the members of Allies Taxi Service Inc. I would like to thank you for 
the opportunity to put on record our support for this bill.  
Every year each taxi driver is required to renew his or her business license at the 
Taxicab commission. We have to submit a tax clearance letter from The Bureau of 
Internal Revenue, a police record, and a traffic record. These paper documents are 
added to the already loaded manilla folder that contains documents from the very 
first day he or she became a taxi driver, which for many drivers can be several 
decades.  
Just to upgrade from an older vehicle to a newer vehicle, drivers have to remove the 
plates from the old vehicle and turn them in to the Taxicab Commission office before 
being able to request a letter which can take several days and many trips to the office 
to see if it’s ready. That letter has to be then taken with other documents to the 
Bureau of Motor Vehicle in order to register the new vehicle. The new registration 
has to be then taken back to Taxicab Commission for them to put a copy in the 
manilla folder before your plates are given back to you. All this paperwork and back 
and forth causes unnecessary inconvenience as well as frustration and creates the 
possibility of misunderstanding, mistakes, misplaced documents and an overall 
unpleasant experience for both the driver and the employees at the Taxicab 
Commission office.  
With the implementation of technological upgrades including digitization of paper 
records and files all this will be eliminated with a system that has the capability to 
interconnect with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Bureau of Internal Revenue.  
We are humbly asking all senators for a favorable consideration of this bill.  
THANK YOU.  
                                               With best regards.  
                                                    Tyrone Paul