He told a scrutiny panel on Friday that he was trying to avoid having too many exemptions to the tax and wanted to keep it ‘as simple as possible’.
He suggested, therefore, that the Island’s Catholic schools, who are opposing the introduction of GST on their fees, should obtain a larger grant from Education to offset the cost.
Over the past few weeks a scrutiny panel, chaired by Deputy Patrick Ryan, has quizzed different sections of the community to find out how the tax will affect them.
