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CONFIDENCE in Jersey’s tax system is being lost as a result of delays and difficulties in getting queries answered, a senior backbencher has stated.

SOCIAL security contributions may need to rise in the future to help replenish £300 million set to be withdrawn from Jersey’s welfare reserves to pay for Covid-19, the Chief Minister has said.

THE Chief Minister defended his government’s handling of the pandemic during a heated press conference this week, following strong criticism from a backbench committee.

THE Treasury Minister has come under fire for asking the States to approve proposals to move all Islanders to paying tax on a current-year basis without discussion of the long-term financial impact on Islanders.

THE government has denied that Jersey’s most senior civil servant will be required to spend more time than initially stated on his ‘second job’ with a UK-based real estate firm.

FURTHER questions are being asked about the fairness of moving taxpayers from prior- to current-year taxation following suggestions that those affected would be burdened with paying for the Covid-19 crisis.

A MINISTER has quit the government in order to back a vote of no confidence in the Chief Minister.

A BACKBENCHER has launched a scathing attack on the corporate governance of States-owned companies.

THE Chief Minister’s friendly relationship with the government’s top civil servant may be preventing him from holding him properly to account, a senior backbencher has said.