PL to receive more VAT case applications on Saturday

GiovDeMartino

Mar 17th 2009, 07:37

L-artijiet li hadtulna se taghtuhomna lura jew?

F Zammit

Mar 16th 2009, 21:01

@ Roberto Grima,

I understand your point, but there is nothing wrong in any PN supporter to go the labour HQ and fight for his rights. It shows Labour is open for everyone. I know of PN staunch supporters who did go last Saturday. I know of other who were afraid to go, because they told me I might suffer consequences being seen entering labour HQ (so much for liberty!!) and they gave application to third parties to take it for them. So courage my friends and feel free to go next Saturday.

Roberto Grima

Mar 16th 2009, 18:03

And if the PL were to offer this its service to all Maltese in another venue other than the party headquarters, you can rest assured that ALL Maltese who are owed the VAT refund, irrespective of their political colour, would heed their call to get what is rightfully theirs. Come one PL, you can make this campaign even more successful.

D Zammit

Mar 16th 2009, 17:26

@ Mr Bors Xerri Just to enlighten you, statements done at this point in time count for next election not for the past one, at least that's how things work unless the blue light in your eyes is so bright that you can't reason things out!! By the way, if you are eligible for the refund, and there will be a day when they are given back, please give the money to a charity institution.

Clayton Bartolo

Mar 16th 2009, 15:51

I voted for the nationalists party last election because PN was the Poitical party that managed to insert us in the EU. I also voted cos I want to be a europian citizen. Now that the EU elections are near, I know which party to vote. I am assuming that PN is no longer in favour of the European rights etcc.. if so refund us just as Mrs. Triccas stated & Drake. Those excuses regards, Mater Dei and we've invested those money in our children, etcc.... with the illegal TAX money, I would like to ask mr. P. borg what the govenment did with the other tax that it is deducted from our payslip. Or probably the TAX which I pay every month is being used to take care for those illegal imigrants? Mr Borg I am not rich and I couldn't afford a new car and I had to take a loan. I bought a new car not for luxury as you stated, but for the need that MALTA needs less CO2 emmisions, and probably smaller cars since Licensing reguations have changed. PL changed a lot and yes it is European Party like Gonzi PN.

J.Pace

Mar 16th 2009, 15:47

Who bought a car from a person that bought it after 2004. Can he apply ? Cause he paid for the vat indirectly too !

Joseph Borg

Mar 16th 2009, 14:15

The PN put Malta in the EU. Now the same PN wants to ignore EU laws and do as it pleases.

The 50 million Euros have been illegally stolen from people's pockets and thus they should be given back immediately. It's the government's problem to see where he should fund his yearly budget. He cannot rely on money which he too from people illegally.

Gonzi should also publicly excuse himself with these people which are being treated against EU regulations. 50% of the people are PN voters.

L..Galea

Mar 16th 2009, 14:13

E Gatt
You and the other Gonezipn apologists can continue to cry your eyes out because the peope are going to get the illegally collected VAT back whether you and Gonezipn likes it or not.

J Farrugia

Mar 16th 2009, 13:53

Is this a victory? is it a moral victory? That I have won the world with victories such as these. Where money is onvolved there is no allegeance.

Kenneth Cassar

Mar 16th 2009, 13:22

@ E Gatt:

"nobody questioned the legality of this VAT charge at the time".

That's what you think. However, you are conveniently forgetting a very inconvenient fact. We were not yet EU members "at the time".

P Borg

Mar 16th 2009, 13:22

Dr Muscat - what about the rest of us common mortals who did not have the luxury to afford buying a new car? Do you know that we will have to fork out this money? Don't you know that more expenses for the government = more taxes for all of us?

Have you forgotten the ideology you represent - the socialist ideology? Do you know that with your actions you are now taking money from the poor to give it to the rich?!

I am already seeing the Nationalist government creating a new tax - which probably will be named the Muscat Tax - to compensate for the EUR50M you are sueing the government for!

Boris Xerri

Mar 16th 2009, 13:19

If it is true that a Labour government would have refunded this VAT, can anyone from the PL please enlighten us where they stated it in their electoral manifest or when did they promise it? By any chance, did they decide to promise it AFTER they saw that once again, they were not voted in government and they had to embark on another 5 year crusade of negativity and just creating obstacles to the government?

V.Micallef

Mar 16th 2009, 13:16

@ E Gatt
"I feel that I do not have any personal or moral dilemma in stating that I do not agree with the Government’s position on the matter of the VAT charged on the registration tax on cars." Do you know who wrote those words in the same newspaper? Honest people express themselves in that way. Why don't you try to follow suit?

R Abela

Mar 16th 2009, 13:11

@E Gatt
5 years ago the Maltese and Gozitans voted to join the EU believing that they were going to be treated at par with other EU nationals. It should have been the government's onus to regularise ALL its obligations towards its voters before applying for membership! IF, as you say, the governement sought advise on the issue 5 years ago, it only goes to show that someone, somewhere was not very familiar with EU laws or knew exactly what was what and decided to throw caution to the wind!! Hindsight was a blessing to many satellite dish owners!

Anthony Formosa

Mar 16th 2009, 13:08

Can these applications be done by mail? which I'm sure it will attract more people to apply.

Colin Camilleri

Mar 16th 2009, 12:49

I tend to disagree with you. The PL has been harping about this for over 3 years and the government never bothered to remove it. If the PN government was not doing anything illegal why then, did it change the vehicle registration process and removing this VAT on registration tax?
Besides, if it will come out though the courts that the PL was right, then GonziPN should stop blaming others and crying crocodile tears. It should first sack its proven useless and expensive lawyers and consultants, resign and call an early election.
We are fed up to live in a 3rd world country where everything is at least 100% more expensive than the next most expensive EU state and have less than half the value for the money/ taxes we pay than the next poorest EU state.

roberto vella

Mar 16th 2009, 12:39

@ EGatt

may i remind you that Joseph Muscat has long been saying that VAT imposed this way was not legal...round about the same periods that was effected. As to the legal advise ... it could very well be that the advise was wrong...let's leave that to the courts to decide

mark attard

Mar 16th 2009, 12:38

Because 5 years ago malta wasnt in the EU yet and taxes were the sole discretion of the local (Malta) government.

Now, in the EU context, the issue has gone within the confines and jurisdiction of the EU....and its been indicated/ declared as being illegal. So hand it back!

S Cassar

Mar 16th 2009, 12:36

A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR LABOUR MEP CANDIDATES .. I ASSUME THEY WILL RECEIVE THE APPLICATIONS THEMSELVES AS THEY DID LAST SATURDAY..GOOD PHOTO OPPORTUNITY TOO AND A GOOD EXCUSE FOR THE MEP CAMPAIGN

M. Storace

Mar 16th 2009, 12:34

@E.Gatt
'Nobody questioned the legality of this VAT charge at the time' - simple because the public was treated like mushrooms and left in the dark.
Since Dr. Muscat took the initiative in the interest of the Maltese/Gozitan pubic, both Ms. RMTT and Dr. Drake followed suit and publicily admitted that the Government should refund this ILLEGAL VAT to the rightful car owners.

E Gatt

Mar 16th 2009, 12:11

Today, the application of VAT on registration fees is a grey area that will be decided by the courts. If people have the right to get refunded then the government will pay such refunds.

Five years ago, the government was advised that there were no legal problems with charging VAT on registration fees. The government used this revenue to plan part of the budget of that year and the subsequent years. Had the government expected this tax to be controversial or legally doubtful at the time, the VAT income could have easily have replaced by let’s say an increase in registration fees. Dr Joseph Muscat now has the luxury of hindsight. Why didn’t his party organise the court cases at the time? Simple: nobody questioned the legality of this VAT charge at the time.