Unions stress tax reform in MCESD meeting on Budget

J.Buhagiar

Aug 1st 2008, 19:12

I need to agree with Vince Farrugia + add the follwoing. To understand Small Businesses - Small Self Employed and even Smaller, all Employees - then Gov. needs to step down from up above and come on the ground to understand that he need to eases off the pressure on

1) NI contributions
2) Income Tax
3) Loads of Indirect taxes for anything and everything from the host of Authorities that have beens set up to justify their guaranteed salaries.
4) Elimination of automatically renewable employment agreements
5) A decent increase in minimum wage standards

The mid/low income workers or more than half the population 's living standards is going to move backwards not forward. I have recently been doing some social work and can assure Gov. that the sacrifices that some familes are making are unbelievable.

Although these people understand that Gov has no provision in his budget to finance Surcharge - Please at least give these people a decent wage increase to cover the Double Effect this will bring with it + Increase the lower income tax treshold.

Reducing the upper tax rates is not good enough!