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Organization has to wait for the government to figure out if they actually are confirmed as an official relief organization. all that takes time. again, we are talking about tents in the rainy san. some of these small relief groups and some really small say they don't have the cash to be able to pay taxes on something that's been donated by the people in the united states. it makes absolutely no sense. here's what some of the folks we talked to today had to say. >> we were bringing in medical equipment as well as medicines and we have nothing. we don't have anything to even see the patients th...

Stall the relief supplies until they can ensure that the organizations really deserves to bring in some supplies tax-free. the minister of economic and finance told us that haiti wants to make sure that commercial groups are not sneaking in contraband or just bypassing taxes. some relief organizations though are telling us that the delay means, clearly that something that's desperately needed, like a tent, in fact is not going to get to the people right away. they have been told the only way they can get them out fast is to pay customs taxes that could run in the tens of thousands of dollars, ...