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From Keith Harris.
A PUBLIC consultation project is going to be launched in June by the current finance minister, and it is designed to ask the public a series of questions on how we think money should be raised for investment in public services …
Sounds like a good idea doesn’t it? Well it does until one recalls with dismay what happened when last the public – well, 19,0000 of us anyway – expressed an opinion by way of petition against the introduction of GST.
The sad and all too predictable truth is that, whatever the questionnaire may reveal about public sentiment on how to raise funds for the public purse, we are going to be ignored yet again, especially if we contradict or fail to back easy GST and income tax options which are probably already in the pipeline …
Also, there is the matter of the 1(i)k tax exiles, especially those who arrived here before 2005.
Getting back to the consultation project … I just hope that we, the general public, will be asked in it whether we think that the individually negotiated ultra low tax rates enjoyed by 1(i)k residents – particularly those who cannot be named, and those who are getting away with paying unbelievably low and permanently fixed rates of income tax because they happened to arrive on our shores prior to 2005 when negotiated tax agreements with the super rich were carved in granite – should be increased along with those of we mere mortals …
Perhaps I got it wrong. Are the richest among us really exempt from income tax increases on the embarrassingly low rates they already pay in jersey whilst the local media continually boast about the inclusion of one or two of them in the recent Sunday Times rich list as though we should all be proud of them?
I can see why rich people give their super yachts silly little names like ‘Tickled Pink’.
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